Political Competition, Innovation and Growth: A Historical Analysis - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540646809 ISBN 13: 9783540646808

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1998

Synopsis

This volume confronts an important historical hypothesis with empirical evidence from selected periods of history. The hypothesis in question states that competition among political and legal organisations in developing rules has been a crucial condition for liberty, innovation and growth in the history of mankind. It is due to Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon and Max Weber and has been revived and further developed by Nobel-Laureate Douglass C. North who contributes the first chapter. The volume brings together political economists, historians and legal scholars to discuss the role of political competition in the rise and decline of nations - both in theory and in a large number of case studies.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 3540646809
• ISBN 13: 9783540646808
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 315
• Editor: Bernholz Peter, Streit Manfred E., Vaubel Roland