CHAPTER NINETEEN: POLITICAL ECONOMY

a. Can any variety of capitalism be judged superior?

b. Is authoritarian rule the best route to economic development for low income countries?

Hague & Harrop, 2010 edn, ch. 19.

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A. Przeworski, Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990
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V. Schmidt, The Futures of European Capitalism

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