Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

North, Douglass C.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Hardcover. Red cloth boards woth gilt lettering on spine. White dj, clear mylar cover. viii, 152 pages. VG/VG ex-lib copy. Associated library stickers/stamps on bookblock, spine, end pages. Item #184986
ISBN: 9780521394161

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.