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Institutional Change and American Economic Growth

Author : L. E. Davis
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1971-09-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521081115

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This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521397346

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An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139642960

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Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that produce stagnation. North first explores the nature of institutions and explains the role of transaction and production costs in their development. The second part of the book deals with institutional change. Institutions create the incentive structure in an economy, and organisations will be created to take advantage of the opportunities provided within a given institutional framework. North argues that the kinds of skills and knowledge fostered by the structure of an economy will shape the direction of change and gradually alter the institutional framework. He then explains how institutional development may lead to a path-dependent pattern of development. In the final part of the book, North explains the implications of this analysis for economic theory and economic history. He indicates how institutional analysis must be incorporated into neo-classical theory and explores the potential for the construction of a dynamic theory of long-term economic change. Douglass C. North is Director of the Center of Political Economy and Professor of Economics and History at Washington University in St. Louis. He is a past president of the Economic History Association and Western Economics Association and a Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written over sixty articles for a variety of journals and is the author of The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History (CUP, 1973, with R.P. Thomas) and Structure and Change in Economic History (Norton, 1981). Professor North is included in Great Economists Since Keynes edited by M. Blaug (CUP, 1988 paperback ed.)

Institutional Change and Economic Development

Author : Ha-Joon Chang
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,56 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0857286978

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‘Institutional Change and Economic Development’ discusses not just theoretical issues but a diverse range of real-life institutions – political, bureaucratic, fiscal, financial, corporate, legal, social and industrial – in the context of dozens of countries across time and space, spanning Britain, Switzerland and the USA in the past to Botswana, Brazil, and China today.

Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500

Author : Stanley L. Engerman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 33,54 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107009553

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Examines differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin America and mainland North America since the seventeenth century.

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change

Author : Lee J. Alston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,13 MB
Release : 1996-07-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521557436

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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.

Media, Development, and Institutional Change

Author : Christopher J. Coyne
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1848449127

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Media, Development, and Institutional Change investigates mass media s profound ability to affect institutional change and economic development. The authors use the tools of economics to illuminate the media s role in enabling and inhibiting political economic reforms that promote development. The book explores how media can constrain government, how governments manipulate media to entrench their power, and how private and public media ownership affects a country s ability to prosper. The authors identify specific media-related policies governments of underdeveloped countries should adopt if they want to grow. They illustrate why media freedom is a critical ingredient in the recipe of economic development and why even the best-intentioned state involvement in media is more likely to slow prosperity than to enhance it. Scholars and students of economics, political science and sociology; policy-makers, analysts and others in the development community; and academics in media studies will find this book insightful and provocative.