Is This Time Different? Capture and Anti-Capture of US Politics

Societies are molded by their institutions that determine both their levels of prosperity and how that prosperity is distributed within society. For most of its history the U.S. has had economic institutions which have been comparatively inclusive in the sense that economic opportunities have been o...

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Main Authors: Acemoglu, Daron (Contributor), Robinson, James A. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Walter de Gruyter, 2013-08-30T15:22:00Z.
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