Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

Avner Greif and Murat Iyigun

No 7377, IZA Discussion Papers from IZA Network @ LISER

Abstract: Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.

Keywords: economic development; institutions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N10 N13 O10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2013-04
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Published - published in: American Economic Review, 2013, 103 (3), 534-538

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