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Institutions, institutional change, and economic performance /

"Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Colección:Political economy of institutions and decisions.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Institutions
  • 1. An introduction to institutions and institutional change
  • 2. Cooperation: the theoretical problem
  • 3. The behavioural assumptions in a theory of institutions
  • 4. A transaction cost theory of exchange
  • 5. Informal constraints
  • 6. Formal constraints
  • 7. Enforcement
  • 8. Institutions and transaction and transformation costs
  • Part II. Institutional change
  • 9. Organizations, learning, and institutional change
  • 10. Stability and institutional change
  • 11. The path of institutional change
  • Part III. Economic performance
  • 12. Institutions, economic theory, and economic performance
  • 13. Stability and change in economic history
  • 14. Incorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles.