Empirical studies in institutional change / edited by Lee J. Alston, Thráinn Eggertsson, Douglass C. North.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Description
xi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    Series
    Political economy of institutions and decisions [More in this series]
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
    Contents
    • Introduction / Lee J. Alston, Thrainn Eggertsson and Douglass C. North
    • A note on the economics of institutions / Thrainn Eggertsson
    • Empirical work in institutional economics: an overview / Lee J. Alston
    • 1. Toward an understanding of property rights. Economic variables and the development of the law: the case of western mineral rights / Gary D. Libecap
    • 2. Impediments to institutional change in the former Soviet system. Why economic reforms fail in the Soviet system: a property rights
    • based approach / Jan Winiecki
    • 3. Transaction costs and economic development. Public institutions and private transactions: a comparative analysis of the legal and regulatory environment for business transactions in Brazil and Chile / Andrew Stone, Brian Levy and Ricardo Paredes
    • 4. The evolution of modern institutions of growth. Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England / Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast
    • 5. Regulation in a dynamic setting. The political economy of controls: American sugar / Anne O. Krueger
    • 6. Price controls, property rights, and institutional change. Roofs or stars: the stated intents and actual effects of a rents ordinance / Steven N.S. Cheung
    • 7. Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights. Legally induced technical regress in the Washington salmon fishery / Robert Higgs
    • 8. The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy. A political theory of the origin of property rights: airport slots / William H. Riker and Itai Sened
    • 9. The economics and politics of institutional change. Paternalism in agricultural labor contracts in the U.S. South: implications for the growth of the welfare state / Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie
    • Epilogue: economic performance through time / Douglass C. North.
    ISBN
    • 052155313X ((hc))
    • 9780521553131 ((hc))
    • 0521557437 ((pb))
    • 9780521557436 ((pb))
    LCCN
    95047278
    OCLC
    33405252
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