Research Catalog

Title

Institutions, institutional change, and economic performance / Douglass C. North.

Author

North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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Description

viii, 152 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

The Political economy of institutions and decisions

Uniform Title

Political economy of institutions and decisions.

Subjects

• Economia politica
• SOCIAL STRUCTURE
• Changement organisationnel
• Organizational change
• Economic development
• Economía institucional
• Desarrollo económico
• Organisatieverandering
• Economics
• Institutionnalisme
• Economische ontwikkeling
• ECONOMICS
• SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS
• Planejamento economico
• Economia (teoria)
• Institutional economics
• Cambio organizacional
• INSTITUTION BUILDING
• Développement économique

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-146) and index.

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. Stablity and change in economic history -- 14. Incorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles.

ISBN

• 0521394163
• 9780521394161
• 0521397340 (pbk.)
• 9780521397346 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 90001673
• 99954713600

OCLC

• ocm21293340
• 21293340

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Columbia University Libraries