<p>The following researchers have written a number of papers and books on this topic:</p>

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<li><a href="http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/publication" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Doran Acemoglu</a></li>
<li><a href="http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/category/categories/published-paper" rel="nofollow noreferrer">James Robinson</a></li>
</ul>

<p>You may want to read their papers for a good start.</p>

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That Acemoglu and Robinson overestimated the role of institutions in the past is almost consensus by now. There seems to be no clear causal relationship. A lot of recent papers show that it is not primarily the institutions that determine whether countries are rich or poor (see e.g. http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/1/151.abstract)
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<p>I want to write a term paper on institutional quality and economic development. What will be its possible theoretical framework?</p>

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The "inventor" of the terminology is Nobel Prize winner Douglass C. North who sadly passed away 2 weeks ago.
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Theories relevant to institutional quality and economic development
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# Theories relevant to institutional quality and economic development

(Asked by: username_0 on 2015-12-12)

I want to write a term paper on institutional quality and economic development. What will be its possible theoretical framework?

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: The "inventor" of the terminology is Nobel Prize winner Douglass C. North who sadly passed away 2 weeks ago.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2015-12-12. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

The following researchers have written a number of papers and books on this topic:

* [Doran Acemoglu](http://economics.mit.edu/faculty/acemoglu/publication)
* [James Robinson](http://scholar.harvard.edu/jrobinson/category/categories/published-paper)

You may want to read their papers for a good start.

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: That Acemoglu and Robinson overestimated the role of institutions in the past is almost consensus by now. There seems to be no clear causal relationship. A lot of recent papers show that it is not primarily the institutions that determine whether countries are rich or poor (see e.g. http://qje.oxfordjournals.org/content/129/1/151.abstract)  

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