@ - article is available online
1 Introduction
@ Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James A. Robinson. 2005. “Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-Run Growth”. In Handbook of Economic Growth, 1:385–472
2 Anarchy and con?ict
@ Robert Axelrod. 1984. The Evolution of Cooperation. Basic Books (Chapter 1)
@ David Skarbek. 2012. “Prison Gangs, Norms, and Organizations”. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 82 (1): 96–109
@ James Fearon. 1995. “Rationalist Explanations for War”. International Organization 49 (3): 379–414
Lecture note on the repeated prisoner’s dilemma and con?ict
@ Oeindrila Dube and Juan Vargas. 2013. “Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Con?ict: Evidence from Colombia”. Review of Economic Studies 80 (4): 1384–1421
3 State formation
@ Raul Sanchez de la Sierra. Forthcoming. “On the Origin of States: Stationary Bandits and Taxation in Eastern Congo”. Journal of Political Economy
@ Joram Mayshar et al. 2015. “Cereals, Appropriability and Hierarchy”. Working paper
4 Autocracies
@ Patrick Francois, Ilia Rainer, and Francesco Trebbi. 2015. “How Is Power Shared In Africa?” Econometrica 83 (2): 465–503
@ Gary King, Jennifer Pan, and Margaret Roberts. 2013. “How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression”. American Political Science Review 107 (917): 326–343
@ Roger B. Myerson. 2015. “Moral Hazard in High O?ce and the Dynamics of Aristocracy”. Econometrica 83 (6): 2083–2126
5 Democratization
@ Daron Acemoglu and James A Robinson. 2000. “Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (4): 1167–1199
@ Toke S. Aidt and Rapha?l Franck. 2015. “Democratization Under the Threat of Revolution: Evidence From the Great Reform Act of 1832”. Econometrica 83 (2): 505–547
@ Charles Angelucci, Simone Meraglia, and Nico Voigtl?nder. 2017. “The Medieval Roots of Inclusive Institutions: From the Norman Conquest of England to the Great Reform Act”. NBER Working paper
@ Barry R. Weingast. 1997. “The Political Foundations of Democracy and the Rule of Law”. The American Political Science Review 91 (2): 245–263
@ Daron Acemoglu et al. 2019. “Democracy does cause growth”. Journal of Political Economy 127 (1): 47–100
6 Corruption
@ Andrei Shleifer and Robert W Vishny. 1993. “Corruption”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 108 (3): 599–617
@ John McMillan and Pablo Zoido. 2004. “How to Subvert Democracy: Montesinos in Peru”. Journal of Economic Perspectives 18 (4): 69–92
@ Roland Hodler and Paul A Raschky. 2014. “Regional favoritism”. The Quarterly Journal of Economics 129 (2): 995–1033
7 Legal institutions
@ Edward L Glaeser and Andrei Shleifer. 2002. “Legal Origins”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 117 (4): 1193–1229
@ Paul R Milgrom, Douglass C North, and Barry R Weingast. 1990. “The Role of Institutions in the Revival of Trade: The Law Merchant, Private Judges, and the Champagne Fairs”. Economics & Politics 2 (1): 1–23
8 Bureaucracies
@ Canice Prendergast and Robert H. Topel. 1996. “Favoritism in Organizations”. Journal of Political Economy 104 (5): 958–958
@ Guo Xu. 2018. “The Costs of Patronage: Evidence from the British Empire”. American Economic Review 108, no. 11 (): 3170–3198