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Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters (The Yrjö Jahnsson Lectures) by Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten is a business book available to read on EtoBox.
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"Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters
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- Author
- Besley, Timothy, Persson, Torsten
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9786613169044
- Category
- business
- Subjects
- History, Management, Business
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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