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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)
Corporate Author:	Ebook Library
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Series:	Political economy of institutions and decisions.
Subjects:	Institutional economics. Organizational change. Economic development. Economía institucional. Cambio organizacional. Desarrollo económico. Institutionnalisme. Changement organisationnel. Développement économique. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Negotiating. Economische ontwikkeling. Organisatieverandering. Economia (teoria) Planejamento economico. Economia politica. Institutions sociales. Einrichtung. Institution (Soziologie) Wirtschaft. ECONOMICS. SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS. SOCIAL STRUCTURE. INSTITUTION BUILDING. Economics Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

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.