Empirical Studies in Institutional Change

Klappentext This collection of empirical studies analyses historical and contemporary institutions and institutional change in various parts of the world. 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.

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• Authors: Lee J. (University of Illinois Alston, Lee J. Eggertsson 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: Hardback
• Released: 28.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521553131
• ISBN: 978-0-521-55313-1
• No. of pages: 376
• Series: Cambridge Monographs on Mathem
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics