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

• 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

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新世界经济体中政治经济、经济制度和增长之间的关系如何演变和体现。 对西欧和某些海外分支的现代扩张或经济增长的研究表明，政治民主和经济增长往往同时出现。 这项研究将试图确定北美和南美的情况是否属实。 北美和南美的经济体遵循截然不同的经济和政治发展道路，尽管它们在人均自然资源方面都享有极其有利的环境，都是由同一小群国家建立的，并且由来自同一人口的同一经济阶层的个人组成。 尽管在定居时有这些相似之处，但它们在社会内部政治权力、人力资本和财富的不平等程度、经济制度的性质和结构以及增长实现方面存在巨大差异。 新世界经济体为研究民主、制度和增长提供了一个有吸引力的天然实验室的另一个原因是，它们经历了政治体制的一系列重大变革，例如独立的实现，以及经济制度的相关变革（或变革失败）。 这项研究还将详细研究此类事件导致的制度变化的影响，并严格应用跨经济体的比较方法，以加深对制度在经济增长中作用的理解。