Review of Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences by Carles Boix

Alberto Alesina

Journal of Economic Literature, 2016, vol. 54, issue 3, 935-41

Abstract: Political Order and Inequality: Their Foundations and Their Consequences argues that geography, technology, and wars determined the formation of a ruling class, inequality, and institutional development, rather than the other way around. Institutions are not a cause but a consequence. This relatively short book covers an enormous amount of material. I have sympathy for the basic idea of the book, but in some parts I would have liked to see more detailed evidence, especially on the more recent history and the Industrial Revolution.

JEL-codes: D02 D63 D72 H11 O43 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
Note: DOI: 10.1257/jel.20151366
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