TY  - BOOK
AU  - North, Douglass C.
TI  - Institutions, institutional change, and economic performance
SN  - 9780521394161
U1  - 306.3 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Organizational change
KW  - Economic development
KW  - Institutional economics
N1  - Part 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
ER  -