POLA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Cooperation and institutions in industrial nation states & agrarian societies : Internal Revenue Service, Belgian Overseas Colonies, Tropical Africa
25 Feb 2016
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Pola02 - cooperation and institutions in industrial nation states & agrarian societies. Root causes: a historical approach to assessing the role of institutions in economic. Development, finance & development 40 (june 2003), 27-30. That being said, apparently geography does also play a role in this. Some counter arguments stated by the author in this article were that the europeans set up exclusively extractive institutions, exemplified by the belgian colonization of the congo, slave plantations in the. Caribbean, and forced labour systems in the mines of central america. Thus, there is no evidence whatsoever that any of these factors are supported by the geography thesis of any sort. Main point: good institutions don"t automatically form. Precolonial institutions, post-colonial states and economic development in tropical africa, . Social capital & ethnic homogeneity = explanatory power in africa. Stability of institutions & economic growth in africa (main purpose of this essay) The american political system (w. w. norton, 2011), ch.
