“…Greif's work falls into a much broader literature which views institutions as the carriers of carriers of the historical-and hence cultural-past. Also see North (1990), David (1994), Engerman and Sokoloff (1997), La Porta et al (1998), Acemoglu et al (2001), Tabellini (2008a), Dell (2010), Voigtlaender and Voth (2012), Alesina et al (2013), Jha (2013), Gorodnichenko and Roland (2017), Greif and Tabellini (2017), and Dell and Olken (2017). For excellent overviews of recent developments in the culture and institutions literature, see Guiso et al (2006), Nunn (2012), and Alesina and Giuliano (2015).…”