The current issue of The Review of Austrian Economics is a special double issue of papers from the USAID Forum Series on the role of institutions in promoting economic growth. The Forum Series was a joint effort between USAID, the Mercatus Center and the IRIS Center at the University of Maryland. The issues contains a paper by Kevin McCabe examining the research in Neuroeconomics and how this line of research has contributed to our understanding of cooperation and trading behavior. The authors of this blog have a piece that draws on Austrian Economics, Public Choice and New Institutional Economics with the aim of forging a new framework of analysis in the field of comparative political economy.
The issue also contains two papers that were not part of the Forum Series. Ben Powell's piece critically analyzes the claim that state planning was the catalyst for the East Asian "miracle." It is Ben's contention that economic freedom is a better explanation of the success of the East Asian countries. I also have a paper in the issue focusing on the institutional preconditions for post-conflict reconstruction. I argue that a successful reconstruction requires a certain set of preconditions that occupiers cannot impose at will.
Archives of earlier RAE issues can be found here.
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