Institutionalized social technologies index: A global perspective
- Resource Type
- article
- Authors
- Danish Ahmed SIDDIQUI; Qazi Masood AHMED
- Source
- Theoretical and Applied Economics, Vol XXV, Iss 4, Pp 67-96 (2018)
- Subject
- institutions
factor analysis
index
rent seeking
governance
Business
HF5001-6182
Economic theory. Demography
HB1-3840
Economics as a science
HB71-74
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1841-8678
1844-0029
This paper presents an index of institutionalized social technologies covering its two main dimensions namely Risk reducing technologies and Anti Rent seeking technologies and in turn covers several social, institutional, political and economic aspects. Specifically it attempted to classify and measure various types of institutions based on a theoretical framework, these institutional indicators are then aggregated to measure cross country institutional qualities of 141 countries. We also test provide a comparison with other major indices.