A Comment on: “State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract” by Timothy Besley

Papaioannou, E (2020) A Comment on: “State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract” by Timothy Besley. Econometrica, 88 (4). pp. 1351-1358. ISSN 0012-9682

Official URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3982/E...

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA18028

Abstract

In this note, I discuss avenues for future research stemming from Besley's [this issue] theoretical approach on the interconnections between civicness, institutions, and state‐fiscal capacity. First, I lay down some ideas on how one could extend the framework to model fragility traps that characterize many low‐income countries and study issues related to nation‐building, conflict, and heterogeneity across space and ethnic lines in the provision of public goods. Second, I discuss the relevance of the approach for the analysis of authoritarian populism that is spreading in developed countries and emerging markets.

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Item Type:	Article
Subject Areas:	Economics
Additional Information:	Papaioannou, E. (2020), A Comment on: “State Capacity, Reciprocity, and the Social Contract ” by Timothy Besley . Econometrica, 88: 1351-1358. doi:10.3982/ECTA18028 The copyright to this article is held by the Econometric Society, http://www.econometricsociety.org/. It may be downloaded, printed and reproduced only for personal or classroom use. Absolutely no downloading or copying may be done for, or on behalf of, any for-profit commercial firm or for other commercial purpose without the explicit permission of the Econometric Society. All other permission requests or questions (including commercial purposes or on behalf of any for-profit entity) should be addressed to: Wiley Permissions www.wiley.com/go/rightslicensing Then select Copyright & Permissions For requests for any content not containing a ‘request permission’ link please contact permissions@wiley.com
Date Deposited:	11 Aug 2020 21:09
Date of first compliant deposit:	30 Jul 2020
Subjects:	State
Last Modified:	05 Nov 2024 02:48
URI:	https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/1443

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