Institutions As The Fundamental Cause Of Long-Run Growth

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Inequality, Democracy, and Institutions: A Critical Review of Recent Research (2010, neutral): “The argument would be that they work as a device to avert rent seeking and thus prevent the political and business elites from predating the economy (see North & Weingast, 1989, when discussing 17th century England; and, recently, Acemoglu et al., 2005).”
An Aid-Institutions Paradox? A Review Essay on Aid Dependency and State Building in Sub-Saharan Africa (2006, positive): “…(for example, Herbst, 1990, Haggard, 1990; Evans 1995), who could be supposed to have professional reasons to argue for the importance of institutions, but also has emerged more recently as a consensus among economists (for example, Rodrik, 2003; Ndulu and O’Connell, 1999; Acemoglu et al., 2004).”
Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth (2014, positive): “Robinson et al. (2005) relate institutions, along with a series of others factors, to “some degree of equality of opportunity in society”.”