1688 and all that: property rights, the Glorious Revolution and the rise of British capitalism

In a seminal 1989 article, Douglass North and Barry Weingast argued that by making the monarch more answerable to Parliament, the Glorious Revolution of 1688 helped to secure property rights in England and stimulate the rise of capitalism. Similarly, Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson...

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Main Author: Geoff Hodgson
Format: Default Article
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/35774
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