Empirical Studies in Institutional Change

Zusammenfassung This collection of empirical studies analyses historical and contemporary institutions and institutional change in various parts of the world. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; A note on theory Thráinn Eggertsson; Empirical work in institutional economics Lee J. Alston; 1. Towards an understanding of property rights Gary D. Libecap; 2. Impediments to institutional change in the Soviet system Jan Winiecki; 3. Transaction costs and economic development Andrew Stone, Brian Levy and Ricardo Paredes; 4. The evolution of the modern institutions of growth Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast; 5. Regulation in a dynamic setting Anne O. Krueger; 6. Price controls, property rights and institutional change Steven N. S. Cheung; 7. Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights Robert Higgs; 8. The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy William H. Riker and Itai Sened; 9. The economics and politics of institutional change Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie; Epilogue: Economic performance through time Douglass C. North.

Product details

• Authors: Lee J. (University of Illinois Alston, Lee J. North Alston, Rainn Eggertsson
• Assisted by: Lee J. Alston (Editor), Thrainn Eggertsson (Editor), Douglass C. North (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521557436
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55743-6
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries