Ideas, leaders, and institutions in 19th-century Chile
研究了19世纪智利国家建设中，领导者的观念如何与现有非正式制度协调，从而影响经济增长，对制度经济学和发展经济学研究者有参考价值。
Abstract Institutions matter for economic growth. Thus, the leaders who help to develop institutions, and their ideas and beliefs, must play a central role in any narrative that seeks to explain such growth. This leads to the appearance of institutional entrepreneurs, who act in a given cultural and political environment. We focus on the problem of state building, where formal institutions designed by leaders must be consistent with a given society's existing informal institutions. We consider an analytical narrative focusing on the Chilean experience in the 19 th century. This serves as an interesting quasi-natural experiment on the role of ideas, leaders, and institutions in the problem of economic growth and development.