Comparative historical political economy

Peter Boettke, Christopher Coyne and Peter Leeson

Journal of Institutional Economics, 2013, vol. 9, issue 3, 285-301

Abstract: Investigations of a society's competitiveness aim to trace the causal mechanisms behind patterns in wealth and poverty across societies. This paper argues that to be productive such investigations must be comparative, historical, and political economic in nature. Comparative historical political economy is how social scientists generate useful knowledge about the wealth and poverty of nations. Our contribution is a methodology – or rather a collection of methodologies – for understanding national competitiveness and attempts to improve it: one focuses on political-economic analysis, another on historical analysis, and a third on comparative analysis.

Date: 2013
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