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Political Competition, Innovation and Growth

A Historical Analysis

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Peter Bernholz

    1. Basel, Switzerland

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  2. Manfred E. Streit

    1. Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Wirtschaftssystemen, Jena, Germany

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  3. Roland Vaubel

    1. Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

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  • Theoretical clarification and empirical evidence regarding a very important hypothesis of history.

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Table of contents (21 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction and overview

      • Peter Bernholz, Manfred E. Streit, Roland Vaubel
      Pages 3-11

    3. The rise of the western world

      • Douglass C. North
      Pages 13-28

    4. Comment on Douglass C. North

      • Manfred E. Streit
      Pages 29-34

    5. The Western legal tradition:The interaction of revolutionary innovation and evolutionary growth

      • Harold J. Berman
      Pages 35-47

    6. The Western legal tradition: Innovation and growth in the history of law

      • Kurt Seelman
      Pages 49-52

    7. On the decline of nations

      • Dennis C. Mueller
      Pages 53-75

    8. Comment on Dennis Muller

      • Roland Vaubel
      Pages 77-81

  3. Case Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83
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    2. Innovation in early Greece: The political sphere

      • Jürgen v. Ungern-Sternberg
      Pages 85-107

    3. International Competition Among States: Institutions, Market Regime and Innovations in Antiquity

      • Peter Bernholz
      Pages 109-125

    4. The resurgence during the Middle Ages: The confused dynamics of the Middle Ages

      • Jean-François Bergier
      Pages 127-140

    5. Comment on Jean-François Bergier

      • Uwe Mummert
      Pages 141-143

    6. “Rise and decline” in Italy and Upper Germany in the Middle Ages and early modern times: An essay

      • Fritz Schmidt, Ulf Dirlmeier
      Pages 145-175

    7. Comment on Fritz Schmidt and Ulf Dirlmeier

      • Oliver Volckart
      Pages 177-181

    8. Economic development, urbanisation and political organisation in the late medieval southern Low Countries

      • Peter Stabel
      Pages 183-204

    9. Comment on Peter Stabel

      • Jonathan Israel
      Pages 205-207

    10. Innovation and growth in the Netherlands: Searching for explanations

      • Jan de Vries
      Pages 209-221

    11. Political competition and the British industrial revolution

      • Sidney Pollard
      Pages 223-237
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About this book

This volume confronts an important historical hypothesis with empirical evidence from selected periods of history. The hypothesis in question states that competition among political and legal organisations in developing rules has been a crucial condition for liberty, innovation and growth in the history of mankind. It is due to Immanuel Kant, Edward Gibbon and Max Weber and has been revived and further developed by Nobel-Laureate Douglass C. North who contributes the first chapter. The volume brings together political economists, historians and legal scholars to discuss the role of political competition in the rise and decline of nations - both in theory and in a large number of case studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Basel, Switzerland

    Peter Bernholz

  • Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von Wirtschaftssystemen, Jena, Germany

    Manfred E. Streit

  • Lehrstuhl für Volkswirtschaftslehre, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Roland Vaubel

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Political Competition, Innovation and Growth

  • Book Subtitle: A Historical Analysis

  • Editors: Peter Bernholz, Manfred E. Streit, Roland Vaubel

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60324-2

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-64353-8Published: 21 January 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-60324-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 308

  • Topics: Economics, general

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