{"id":510,"date":"2012-09-27T09:45:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T09:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rulesofreason.wordpress.com\/?p=510"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:45:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T09:45:59","slug":"taking-stock-of-institutionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Taking stock of Institutionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

This year’s Nobel Symposium has been on the topic of Growth and Development<\/a>. Several of the presentations (available here<\/a>) deal with the impact of institutions on economic growth and development. The contributions by Daron Acemoglu<\/a> and\u00a0Andrei Shleifer<\/a> in particular do a great job in taking stock\u00a0of what we know about the role institutions play in society and\u00a0the economy. And the discussion is useful in understanding the methodological challenges in demonstrating the importance of institutions as well. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year’s Nobel Symposium has been on the topic of Growth and Development. Several of the presentations (available here) deal with the impact of institutions on economic growth and development. The contributions by Daron Acemoglu and\u00a0Andrei Shleifer in particular do a great job in taking stock\u00a0of what we know about the role institutions play in society and\u00a0the economy. And the discussion is useful in understanding the methodological challenges in demonstrating the importance of institutions as well. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[23],"tags":[305,309,339,340],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7g3hj-8e","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":457,"url":"http:\/\/re-design.dimiter.eu\/?p=457","url_meta":{"origin":510,"position":0},"title":"Inclusive institutions and economic development","date":"May 3, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Francis Fukuyama reviews Why Nations Fail, the new book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, at his blog. The review is fairly critical. 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