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Does Douglass North Offer an original research agenda to analyse the relationships between education and economic performance?
Liefert Douglass North eine originelle Forschungsagenda um die Verhältnisse zwischen Bildung und ökonomischer Leistungsfähigkeit zu analysieren?
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Abstract Douglass North offers an interesting alternative when he suggests that institutions and the resulting organisations play an essential role in explaining the economic performance of nations. Among these organisations, as an extension of North’s work, we find educational systems and in particular univ... view more
Douglass North offers an interesting alternative when he suggests that institutions and the resulting organisations play an essential role in explaining the economic performance of nations. Among these organisations, as an extension of North’s work, we find educational systems and in particular university systems. According to the type of institutions, these organisations act either towards increased competition, innovation, the search for productivity and entrepreneurship, or on the contrary towards rent seeking activities,
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Keywords
economic development (on national level); performance; education system; institutional economics; incentive system; public investment; university level of education; university system; economic success; institutional change
Classification
Social History, Historical Social Research
Political Economy
Free Keywords
North; education; economic performance; cliometrics
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
Page/Pages
p. 338-342
Journal
Historical Social Research, 36 (2011) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.36.2011.2.338-342
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed