North, Douglass C. <br/><br/>
Institutions, institutional change and economic performance / 
Douglass C. North 
 - New york.  Edward Elgar   1998 
 - vii, 152 p.  PB 
<br/><br/>	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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521397346 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>	 Economic development. Organizational change. Institutional economics.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>330.155  / NOR/I