Book contents
- The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions
- The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Part I Main Ideas
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The Transition Concept: Two Uncontroversial Examples
- 1.2 The Two Basic Steady States and the Grand Transition
- 1.3 Properties of the Transition Path, ΠX
- 1.4 What Determines Transition Paths?
- 1.5 Equivalence: Wide Cross-Country Samples and Long Time Series Tell the Same Story
- 1.6 Economic Development in a Wide Cross-Country Sample
- 1.7 The Two-Sector Approximation and the High Potential Growth
- 1.8 The OPEC Exception and Three Problems
- 1.9 Seven Institutional Variables
- 1.10 Development and Institutions: Strong but Fuzzy Relations
- 1.11 Modest Causality: Looking for the Main Causal Direction and Practical Exogeneity
- 1.12 My Empirical Strategy: Replicability and Robustness
- Contents
- 2 Some Technical Points
- 3 The Largest Historical Event
- Part II The Transitions of Institutions
- Part III The Grand Transition
- References
- Index
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2021
Book contents
- The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions
- The Grand Pattern of Development and the Transition of Institutions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface
- Part I Main Ideas
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The Transition Concept: Two Uncontroversial Examples
- 1.2 The Two Basic Steady States and the Grand Transition
- 1.3 Properties of the Transition Path, ΠX
- 1.4 What Determines Transition Paths?
- 1.5 Equivalence: Wide Cross-Country Samples and Long Time Series Tell the Same Story
- 1.6 Economic Development in a Wide Cross-Country Sample
- 1.7 The Two-Sector Approximation and the High Potential Growth
- 1.8 The OPEC Exception and Three Problems
- 1.9 Seven Institutional Variables
- 1.10 Development and Institutions: Strong but Fuzzy Relations
- 1.11 Modest Causality: Looking for the Main Causal Direction and Practical Exogeneity
- 1.12 My Empirical Strategy: Replicability and Robustness
- Contents
- 2 Some Technical Points
- 3 The Largest Historical Event
- Part II The Transitions of Institutions
- Part III The Grand Transition
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021