Institutions as the Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth

Selected reading: Research designs for institutional and local policy claims.

How to study this source

• Why do some societies prosper?

  commentaryResearch designs for institutional and local policy claims

  Inspect the research design and the assumptions behind its causal inference.

Ideas and questions

Read background definitions when a term blocks the argument. Then return to the source and reconstruct its claim in your own words.

Read alongside, read against

• The Rise and Decline of Nations

  Mancur Olson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Logic of Collective Action

  Mancur Olson. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• The Mystery of Capital

  Hernando de Soto. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Poor Economics

  Abhijit Banerjee · Esther Duflo. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.

• Good Economics for Hard Times

  Banerjee · Duflo. Compare assumptions, evidence and scope with the source above. These are editorial companions, not necessarily direct responses.