Series Foreword -- Preface -- I Institutions and Economic Performance -- 1 On Institutions and Growth -- 2 Financial Institutional Reform, Growth, and Equality -- 3 How Do Institutions Lead Some Countries to Produce So Much More Output per Worker than Others? -- 4 Regulation and Economic Performance: Product Market Reforms and Productivity in the OECD -- II The Impact of Institutions on Innovation and Entrepreneurship -- 5 Institutions and Technological Innovation during Early Economic Growth: Evidence from the Great Inventors of the United States, 1790-1930 -- 6 On the Ef.cacy of Reforms: Policy Tinkering, Institutional Change, and Entrepreneurship -- III Endogenous Institutions -- 7 The Role of Higher Education Institutions: Recruitment of Elites and Economic Growth -- 8 Growth and Endogenous Political Institutions -- 9 The Road from Agriculture -- List of Contributors -- Index.