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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?

  • William Easterly
American Economic Review
vol. 98, no. 2, May 2008
(pp. 95–99)
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Citation

Easterly, William. 2008. "Institutions: Top Down or Bottom Up?" American Economic Review, 98 (2): 95–99. DOI: 10.1257/aer.98.2.95

JEL Classification

  • D02 Institutions: Design, Formation, and Operations
  • O17 Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
  • Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology