Better off stateless: Somalia before and after government collapse

By Pete Leeson. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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Informal institutions rule: institutional arrangements and economic performance (2009, background): “The emerging result that informal institutions are an important contributor to economic progress is supported by recent conceptual literature and empirical research (Anderson and Hill 1979 ;B enson1989a, 1989b ;G reif1993 ;G reif et al. 1994; Knack and Keefer 1997 ;P ejovich2003; Nenova and Harford ”
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “Leeson (2007) illustrates this fact on the basis of the experiences in Somalia.”
Public choice and the economic analysis of anarchy: a survey (2009, unknown): “Leeson (2007f) shows that even when one party is stronger and no underlying governmental guarantees against violence exist, self-enforcing exchange is still possible.”
Economic freedom, culture, and growth (2011, background): “…several studies lend credence to the hypothesis that informal rules and culture play a role in economic outcomes (Chamlee-Wright 1997; Knack and Keefer 1997; Grier 1997; Duffy and Stubben 1998; Barro and McCleary 2003; Guiso et al. 2006; Leeson 2007a,b,c; Licht et al. 2007; C. Williamson 2009).”
Securing Private Property: Formal versus Informal Institutions (2011, background): “Also, Leeson (2007d, 2009) illustrates how 17th century pirates relied on private means to promote social cooperation and secure their assets.”
Extreme Weather and Civil War: Does Drought Fuel Conflict in Somalia through Livestock Price Shocks? (2014, background): “Such self-seeking behavior tends to be amplified in times of unusual hardship—for example, when experiencing serious income losses from droughts—and facilitated by the political economy of the stateless order as in most parts of Somalia (Leeson 2007; Mubarak 1997; Powell, Ford, and Nowrasteh 2008).”
Two-Tiered Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (2009, unknown): “Nenova (2004), Nenova and Harford (2004), Coyne (2006), and Leeson (2007a) describe them in greater detail.”
Institutions, Capital, and Growth (2010, background): “3 For example, according to Leeson (2007) education in Somalia was completely financed through foreign aid prior to the collapse of the Somalia central government in 1991.”
Somalia after state collapse: Chaos or improvement? (2008, background): “This section builds on research comparing living standards conducted by Nenova and Harford (2004), Coyne (2006) and Leeson (2007).”