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Trump's assault on institutions will be a litmus test of their importance

Do institutions matter? Donald Trump's sustained assault on them will give us an answer

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The US has long prided itself on its institutions. It has also been one of the most reliable sources of sustained and consistent economic growth for the world. | Illustration: Ajaya Mohanty

Mihir S Sharma Mumbai

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Institutions matter. They are the foundation on which growth, investment, and economic stability must be built. Or is it the other way around? Is it economic shifts that give rise to modern institutions? Economists have sought to identify the causal relationship between these two for a long time; last year, three economists won the discipline’s Nobel Prize for work that seemed to demonstrate how institutions that were supportive of investment, and not extractive, could lead to decades, indeed centuries, of growth. 
We are living in the middle, however, of a great experiment. We owe this to American President Donald Trump,
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