Comments on McCloskey and Weingast
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Comments on McCloskey and Weingast. / Ringmar, Erik.
I: Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 65, Nr. 2, 2017, s. 124-126.Forskningsoutput: Tidskriftsbidrag › Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift
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T1 - Comments on McCloskey and Weingast
AU - Ringmar, Erik
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Economic growth is an aspect of social change which cannot be explained by economic theory alone. McCloskey invokes ‘ideas’ but ideas only matter as embodied in institutions. Weingast makes this points but his institutions are too economistic. Only institutionalised self-emergence can explain massive, relentless and automatic change.
AB - Economic growth is an aspect of social change which cannot be explained by economic theory alone. McCloskey invokes ‘ideas’ but ideas only matter as embodied in institutions. Weingast makes this points but his institutions are too economistic. Only institutionalised self-emergence can explain massive, relentless and automatic change.
KW - economic history
KW - East-West comparisons
KW - economic growth theory
KW - economic development
KW - institutions
KW - Barry Weingast
KW - Deirdre McCloskey
KW - Douglass North
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85020068241&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03585522.2017.1324520
DO - 10.1080/03585522.2017.1324520
M3 - Article
VL - 65
SP - 124
EP - 126
JO - Scandinavian Economic History Review
JF - Scandinavian Economic History Review
SN - 1750-2837
IS - 2
ER -