Douglass C. North (St Louis Washington University)

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Explores the nature of institutions and institutional change.

Produktdetails

• Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 1990.
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 244g
• ISBN-13: 9780521397346
• ISBN-10: 0521397340
• Artikelnr.: 14998391

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.

Rezensionen

"At a time when economic and political institutions are being reformed and replaced all over the world, North's book is required reading for all social scientists and policy makers." T.N. Srinivasan, Yale University