Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth

13 Pages Posted: 11 May 2013

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Avner Greif

Stanford University - Department of Economics; Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)

Murat Iyigun

University of Colorado at Boulder - Department of Economics; Harvard University - Center for International Development (CID); IZA Institute of Labor Economics

Abstract

Although social institutions permeate the world in which we live, they are all but absent from our analyses of economic growth and development. This paper argues the need to mitigate this omission by demonstrating the importance of social institutions for growth and development.

Keywords: institutions, economic development

JEL Classification: O10, N10, N13

Suggested Citation

Greif, Avner and Iyigun, Murat F., Social Organizations, Violence & Modern Growth. IZA Discussion Paper No. 7377, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2263653 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2263653

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