Law and economics in the tropics: Some reflections

Pranab Bardhan

Department of Economics, Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, Institute for Business and Economic Research, UC Berkeley

Abstract: Since the institutional, political, and behavioural contexts as well as the underlying power distributions are often different in poor countries, as spelled out in this paper, the law and economics literature as developed in rich countries needs to be seriously modified if it is to be of relevance to former countries. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Keywords: security of property rights; rule of law; inequality of power distribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-03-01
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