Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters

by Timothy Besley and Torsten Persson

Book Overview

"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691152683
• ISBN13: 9780691152684
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"