Change has always been an issue for studies in politics and economics. However, there are few systematic treatments of institutions. This paper exemplifies how institutions (i.e., rules, norms and conventions) relate to the time-geography concepts of constraints, which affect different agents, policy-making, as well as economic performance. This paper seeks to advance the current discussion and...

The literature on economic geography has given us many deep insights into the spatial location of economic activity, the forces behind agglomeration, and their implications. For example, Paul Collier’s paper at this conference points out the difficulties that Africa will have in gaining a foothold in labor-intensive manufactured articles (such as textiles) now that South Asia has established a ...