Order, Disorder and Economic Change: Latin America vs. North America

By D. North, W. Summerhill, Barry R. Weingast. 2000

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Women and corruption: What positions must they hold to make a difference? (2014, result): “Several studies find that former British colonies have better property rights, economic and political institutions, and more developed financial markets compared to former French, Portuguese, and Spanish colonies (La Porta et al., 1998; North et al., 2000).”
THE COLONIAL ORIGINS OF COMPARATIVE DEVELOPMENT: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION (2001, unknown): “Similarly, David Landes (1998 Cha ters 19 and 20) and North et al. (1998) arg that former British colonies prospered relati to former French, Spanish, and Portuguese onies because of the good economic and p ical institutions and culture they inherited fro Britain.”
The Colonial Origins of the Divergence in the Americas: A Labor Market Approach (2012, background): “The simplest is North, Summerhill and Weingast’s contention that English institutions, which predominated in the North, were superior to Spanish and Portuguese institutions, and that the colonial experience strengthened these differences [North et al., 2000].”
An Evaluation of Cross-National Measures of Judicial Independence (2014, unknown): “In addition to promoting economic development, scholars have suggested that judicial independence can promote democratic values (e.g., North et al. 2000).14 La Porta et al. (2004: 447) write: “In principle, judicial independence promotes both economic and political freedom, the former by resisting…”
Globalization in History: A Geographical Perspective (2001, background): “First, why did the United States rather than Latin America become the area that overtook the UK and the rest of Europe in real GDP/person?”