Technologies, Rules, and Progress: The Case for Charter Cities
Published By: CGD on eSS | Published Date: March, 12 , 2010The principal constraint to raising living standards in this
century will come neither from scarce resources nor limited technologies. Rather it will come from our
limited capacity to discover and implement new rules—new ideas about how to structure interactions
among people, such as land titles, patents, and social norms. The central task of reducing global
poverty is to find ways for developing countries to adopt new rules that are known to work better than
the ones they have. [CGD Essay].
Author(s): Paul Romer | Posted on: Apr 12, 2010 | Views(1222) | Download (1591)