North, Douglass C. <br/><br/>
Institutions, institutional change, and economic performance/ 
Douglass C. North 
 - Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press,  2002. 
 - viii, 152 p. ;  24 cm. 
 - (Political economy of institutions and decisions) .
<br/><br/>Part I. Institutions --<br/>1. An introduction to institutions and institutional change --<br/>2. Cooperation: the theoretical problem --<br/>3. The behavioural assumptions in a theory of institutions --<br/>4. A transaction cost theory of exchange --<br/>5. Informal constraints --<br/>6. Formal constraints --<br/>7. Enforcement --<br/>8. Institutions and transaction and transformation costs --<br/>Part II. Institutional Change --<br/>9. Organizations, learning, and institutional change --<br/>10. Stability and institutional change --<br/>11. The path of institutional change --<br/><br/>Part III. Economic Performance --<br/>12. Institutions, economic theory, and economic performance --<br/>13. Stablity and change in economic history --<br/>14. Incorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521394161 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Organizational change<br/>Economic development<br/>Institutional economics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306.3  / NOR/I