Douglass C. North (St Louis Washington University)

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the nature of institutions and institutional change.

Produktdetails

• Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 164
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780521394161
• ISBN-10: 0521394163
• Artikelnr.: 22270484

Inhaltsangabe

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. Stablity and change in economic history
14. Incorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles.