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100 _aNorth, Douglass C.
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245 0 _aInstitutions, institutional change, and economic performance/
_cDouglass C. North
260 _aCambridge:
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2002.
300 _aviii, 152 p. ;
_c24 cm.
440 _a(Political economy of institutions and decisions)
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505 _aPart 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.
650 _aOrganizational change
650 _aEconomic development
650 _aInstitutional economics
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