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Chapter 2. Some Technical Points 42
Chapter 3. The Largest Historical Event: The End of Soviet Socialism 50 Part II. Transitions of Institutions 51Part IIA. The Democratic Transition, chapters 4 to 7 52
Chapter 4. Literature, Data, Transition Path and Causality 69
Chapter 5. The Jumps Model for the Short Run, 1960-2016 79
Chapter 6. Events are Practically Random 90
Chapter 7. The Three Pillars Model for the Long Run, 1800-2016 102
Part IIB. The Transition of the Economic System, chapters 8 and 9 103
Chapter 8. Ownership Preferences: The B-index 119
Chapter 9. Economic freedom: The F-index 127
Part IIC. The Transition of traditions and beliefs, chapters 10 to 11 128
Chapter 10. The Transition of Corruption 148
Chapter 11. The Religious Transtion 171 Part III. The Grand Transition 172
Chapter 12. The Hump-Shaped Transtion Path for the Growth Rate 187
Chapter 13. Do Improvements of institutions Harm Development? 203
References 210 Index (not completed)