Comparative Economics in Historical Perspective

Gérard Roland

Comparative Economic Studies, 2018, vol. 60, issue 4, No 1, 475-501

Abstract: Abstract This paper presents evidence showing that there have been since antiquity two opposed types of institutional systems: one resembling central planning and present in ancient China, ancient Egypt, the Inca Empire and other territorial states, and another one with strong market institutions, protection of property rights present mostly in city-states not just in the Mediterranean but throughout the world. A new database documenting these diverse institutional clusters from the antiquity is described and their links analyzed.

Keywords: Comparative economics; Comparative history; Institutions in ancient times; Culture; Individualism; Collectivism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N00 P40 P50 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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