Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Zusammenfassung Explores the nature of institutions and institutional change. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Douglass C. North, Douglass C. (Washington University North
• Assisted by: Randall Calvert (Editor), Thrainn Eggertsson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.10.1990
• EAN: 9780521394161
• ISBN: 978-0-521-39416-1
• No. of pages: 164
• Series: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions; Political Economy of Instituti
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous