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Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

Paperback • 2011

Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

By Torsten Persson,

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"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters...Show more

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9780691152684

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2011

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Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

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