Institutions and Market Economies: The Political Economy of Growth and Development

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction: Economic Growth and Development — An Institutional Perspective....Pages 1-13
Institutions and Economic Development: Economic History and Human Arrangement....Pages 14-38
A ‘Tiresome Complexity’? Rent-seeking, Devolution and Economic Performance in Northern Ireland, 1945–72....Pages 39-64
Institutional Capacity and Social Capability: Japan’s ‘Deviant’ Capitalism in the High-growth Period and Beyond....Pages 65-86
The Developmental Logic of Financial Liberalization in Taiwan....Pages 87-111
The Institutional Legacy and the Development of an Australian National Innovation System....Pages 112-136
The Deep Determinants of Long-run Growth and Economic Development....Pages 137-166
The Deep Determinants of Health and Education: Institutions versus Geography....Pages 167-185
Diseases Dominate....Pages 186-221
When Can the Rabble Redistribute? Democratization and Income Distribution in Low- and Middle-income Countries....Pages 222-249
Globalization as the Institutionalization of Neoliberalism: Commodification, Financialization, and the Anchorless Economy....Pages 250-277
The Democratic Peace and Substitutability During International Crises: Institutionalized Democracy and Foreign Policy Choices....Pages 278-304
The Professions as Systems that Support Transactions Involving Knowledge: Their Contribution to Economic Development and their Response to the Growth of Global Markets....Pages 305-321
Communicative Transaction Benefits....Pages 322-342
Back Matter....Pages 343-346