This talk is about the framework for understanding the role of institutions in economic development. The issue of institutional development has recently come to prominence. In the 1980s, the World ...

2015 marks the centenary of the birth of the LSE’s Nobel Prize winning economist, William Arthur Lewis (1915-1991). Sir Arthur Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics for “pioneering research ...

Economic History is a distinct discipline with an intellectual heritage and methodological approaches that differentiate it from research in economics and history. Economic historians study the ...