I have been asked to speak on what the relationship between political institutions and business should be. In a banal way, we can say that good enterprise and healthy institutions uphold each other.

Two MIT economists were among those awarded the Nobel Prize in economics Monday for their decades of work illuminating the relationship between political institutions and economic prosperity.

Joseph Daniel Ura has previously received research funding from the National Science Foundation and grants for educational programs from the Charles Koch Foundation. Sean M. Theriault previously ...

“Once one starts to think about” economic growth, “it is hard to think about anything else.” Those words, from the late economist Robert Lucas, explain why we’re so fascinated by international ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Major output collapses are costly and frequent in the developing world. Using cross-country data, we classify five-year ...

American democracy seems to be falling into an ever greater crisis. A lottocratic system, in which citizens are randomly ...

Last month, the 2024 Nobel Prize in economics was awarded to three scholars, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson, for “studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.” ...

The left and right don’t agree on much, but many on both sides do agree on one thing: the system is broken. Over the past decade, anti-system political movements have surged, from Brexit in 2015 to ...

Public perceptions of climate change, the future cost and effectiveness of climate mitigation and technologies, and how political institutions respond to public pressure are all important determinants ...

Political alienation is a profound sense of estrangement or disconnection from the political system and its processes. It manifests in various ways, including apathy, distrust, and a feeling of ...

This guide provides a brief introduction to writing in political science for prospective and current students. It includes: A statement about the fields of political science A statement of threshold ...