Democracy, Institutions, and Differential Paths of Economic Growth Among New World Economies: From Settlement to 1940

新世界经济体的民主、制度和经济增长的差异路径：从定居到 1940 年

基本信息

批准号：
9515222
负责人：
Kenneth Sokoloff
金额：
$ 22.9万
依托单位：
National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
1996
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1996-03-01 至 2000-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9515222&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Democracy Institutions Differential Paths Economic

Democracy Institutions Differential Paths Economic

项目摘要

Kenneth L. Sokoloff Stanley L. Engerman Stephen H. Haber National Bureau of Economic Research SBR-9515222 The research will study how the relationships between political economy, economic institutions, and growth evolved and were manifested among the economies of the New World since settlement by the Europeans. Studies of modern expansion or economic growth in western Europe and certain overseas offshoots have argued that political democracy and economic growth tended to emerge together. This research will attempt to determine if this is true in North and South America. The economies of North and South America followed very different paths of economic and political development even though all enjoyed extraordinarily favorable environments with respect to natural resources per person, were established by the same small set of countries and were peopled by individuals from the same economic classes of the same populations. Despite these similarities at the time of settlement, they came to differ enormously with respect to the degree of inequality in political power, human capital, and wealth within their societies, the nature and structure of their economic institutions, as well as their realization of growth. Another reason why New World economies provide an attractive natural laboratory for the study of democracy, institutions and growth, is that they experienced a number of major alterations in political regime, like the achievement of independence, with associated changes (or failures to change) in economic institutions. This research will also examine in detail the impacts of changes in institutions due to such events, with a rigorous application of the comparative approach across economies, to improve the understanding of the role of institutions in economic growth.

Kenneth L. Sokoloff Stanley L. Engerman Stephen H. Haber国家经济研究局SBR-9515222该研究将研究自欧洲人定居以来，政治经济，经济机构和增长之间的关系如何发展并体现在新世界的经济中。关于西欧现代扩张或经济增长以及某些海外分支的研究表明，政治民主和经济增长倾向于一起出现。这项研究将试图确定在北美和南美是否正确。北美经济体遵循了非常不同的经济和政治发展途径，即使所有人都享有每人自然资源的极为有利的环境，但由同一群国家建立，并由来自同一人群的同一经济阶层的个人居住。尽管有这些相似之处，但在政治权力，人力资本和财富的不平等程度上，他们的社会中的不平等程度，其经济机构的本质和结构以及他们对增长的认识。新世界经济为研究民主，制度和增长提供了有吸引力的自然实验室的另一个原因是，他们在政治制度中经历了许多重大变化，例如实现独立性，以及经济机构中的相关变化（或变化失败）。这项研究还将详细研究由于此类事件而导致机构变化的影响，并严格应用了经济体的比较方法，以提高对机构在经济增长中的作用的理解。