UID:
almafu_9960119202802883
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 360 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-139-17463-0
Series Statement:
Political economy of institutions and decisions
Content:
Empirical Studies in Institutional Change is a collection of nine empirical studies by fourteen scholars. Dealing with issues ranging from the evolution of secure markets in seventeenth-century England to the origins of property rights in airport slots in modern America, the contributors analyse institutions and institutional change in various parts of the world and at various periods of time. The volume is a contribution to the new economics of institutions, which emphasises the role of transaction costs and property rights in shaping incentives and results in the economic arena. To make the papers accessible to a wide audience, including students of economics and other social sciences, the editors have written an introduction to each study and added three theoretical essays to the volume, including Douglass North's Nobel Prize address, which reflect their collective views as to the present status of institutional analysis and where it is headed.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover -- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Series editors' preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A note on the economics of institutions -- Empirical work in institutional economics: an overview -- Toward an understanding of property rights -- Economic variables and the development of the law: the case of western mineral rights -- Impediments to institutional change in the former Soviet system -- Why economic reforms fail in the Soviet system: a property rights-based approach -- 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 -- The evolution of modern institutions of growth -- Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England -- Regulation in a dynamic setting -- The political economy of controls: American sugar -- Price controls, property rights, and institutional change -- Roofs or stars: the stated intents and actual effects of a rents ordinance -- Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights -- Legally induced technical regress in the Washington salmon fishery -- The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy -- A political theory of the origin of property rights: airport slots -- 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 -- Epilogue: economic performance through time -- Author index -- Subject index -- POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INSTITUTIONS AND DECISIONS.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-55743-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-55313-X
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139174633
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