The New Institutional Economics and Cliometrics

Eric Alston (), Lee Alston and Bernardo Mueller
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Eric Alston: University of Colorado Boulder

A chapter in Handbook of Cliometrics, 2024, pp 1305-1337 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The New Institutional Economics (NIE) has its early roots in cliometrics. Cliometrics began with a focus on using neo-classical theory to develop and test hypotheses in economic history. But empirical consideration of economic and political development within and across countries is limited, absent consideration of the institutional context. The NIE as applied in economic history first focused on the roles of transaction costs and property rights. From this micro-institutional perspective, the NIE expanded its focus to the role of institutions and norms on economic development as well as how economic forces along with political institutional variance influence outcomes both within and across countries. This involves considering both forces that impede and promote economic and political convergence across countries as well the forces that determine a transition to a new economic or political trajectory altogether. Testing for the determinants of economic and political development is plagued with omitted variables and endogeneity concerns, a constraint which has recently prompted scholars to draw on complexity theory to further supplement the NIE and cliometrics.

Keywords: New Institutional Economics; Cliometrics; Economic history; Transaction costs; Property rights; Endogeneity; Complexity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35583-7_111

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