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100 _aAcemoglu, Daron
245 _aConstitutions, politics, and economics: a review essay on Person and Tabellini's economic effects of constitutions
260 _c2005
300 _ap.1025-048.
362 _aDec
520 _aIn this essay, I review the new book by Torsten Person and Guide Tabellini, The Economic Effects of Constitutions, which investigates the policy and economic consequences of different forms of government and electoral rules. I also take advantage of this opportunity to discuss the advantages and diadvantages of a number of popular empirical strategies in the newly emerging field of comparative political economy. - Reproduced.
650 _aConstitutions
773 _aJournal of Economic Literature
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