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Empirical studies in institutional change / edited by Lee J. Alston, Thráinn Eggertsson, Douglass C. North.
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English
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Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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xi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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HB99.5 .E5 1996
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Institutional economics
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Organizational change
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Alston, Lee J., 1951-
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Þráinn Eggertsson, 1941-
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North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil)
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Series
Political economy of institutions and decisions
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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.
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ISBN
052155313X ((hc))
9780521553131 ((hc))
0521557437 ((pb))
9780521557436 ((pb))
LCCN
95047278
OCLC
33405252
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