Research about the effects of regime type on economic growth rates did not establish any robust differences in average growth rates between democracies and autocracies. Here, it is suggested that we may have asked the wrong question. There still might be a difference in variances. Democracy implies
Economic and political limits to growth
β Scribed by Walter A. Hamilton
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1974
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 78 KB
- Volume
- 2
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4215
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