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Part 1 Foundations: new institutional economics, Ronald H. Coase; understanding institutions, Douglass C. North; institutional evolution as punctuated equilibrium, Masahiko Aoki. <br/><br/>Part 2 Homage to Ronald H. Coase: a revolution in economics, Douglass C. North; Ronald Coase and the new microeconomics, Lars Werin; Ronald Harry Coase --<br/>institutional economist/institution builder, Oliver E. Williamson; Ronald H. Coase and the emergence of a new approach to economics, Claude Menard; Ronald H. Coase --<br/>list of publications. <br/><br/>Part 3 Sources of growth --<br/>technology, natural endowment, or institutions?: dogs and tails in the economic development story, Harold Demsetz; formal versus informal institutions in economic development, Philip Keefer and Mary Shirley; inequality, institutions and differential paths of growth among new world economies, Stanley Engerman et al. <br/><br/>Part 4 Trust, distrust, corruption: when good defences mage good neighbours, Margaret Levi; experimental economics in the bush --<br/>why institutions matter, Jean Ensminger; the impact of paternalism on racial land rental differences in the US, Lee Alston and Kyle Kaufmann; institutionalized corruption and the kleptocratic state, Joshua Charap and Christian Harm. <br/><br/>Part 5 Enforcement issues: the state and diversity of third party enforcers, Yoram Barzel; enforcement procedures and governance structures --<br/>what relationship?, Claude Menard; the lens through which we see --<br/>the impact of ideas on institutional enforcement, Jose Alberto Garibaldi-Fernandez; a cognitive science perspective on legal incentives, John Drobak. <br/><br/>Part 6 Institutions and modes of organizations: quasi-integration in less-than-truckload trucking, Benito Arrunada et al; why do the European Union's electricity industries continue to differ? A new institutional analysis, Jean-Michel Glachant and Dominique Finon; ill-defined property rights in collective action --<br/>the case of US agricultural co-operatives, Michael L. Cook et al; asset specificity, wo. |