Understanding the Process of Economic Change /
"In this landmark work, a Nobel-prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality o...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2005.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- An outline of the process of economic change
- The issues involved in understanding economic change
- Uncertainty in a non-ergodic world
- Belief systems, culture, and cognitive science
- Consciousness and human intentionality
- The scaffolds humans erect
- Taking stock
- The road ahead
- The evolving human environment
- The sources of order and disorder
- Getting it right and getting it wrong
- The rise of the Western world
- The rise and fall of the Soviet Union
- Improving economic performance
- Where are we going?