The frontiers of the new institutional economics / edited by John N. Drobak, John V.C. Nye.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- I. Prologue -- II. Douglass C. North and Economic Theory -- III. The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic Development -- IV. On the Interrelations and Economic Implications of Economic, Social, Political, and Normative Factors: Reflections from Two Late Medieval Societies -- V. Cultural Values, Ideological Beliefs, and Changing Labor Institutions: Notes on Their Interactions -- VI. Thinking about the State: Property Rights, Trade, and Changing Contractual Arrangements in a World with Coercion -- VII. Violence and the Development of Property Rights to Land in the Brazilian Amazon -- VIII. Changing Property Rights: Reconciling Formal and Informal Rights to Land in Africa -- IX. Intertemporal Institutions -- X. The Political Foundations of Limited Government: Parliament and Sovereign Debt in 17th- and 18th-Century England -- XI. Credible Commitment in the United States: Substantive and Structural Limits on the Avoidance of Public Debt -- XII. Economic Reason: The Interplay of Individual Learning and External Structure -- XIII. Beyond Rational Expectations: Indeterminacy in Economic and Financial Markets -- XIV. Making Use of Treacherous Advice: Cognitive Process, Bayesian Adaptation, and the Tenacity of Unreliable Knowledge -- Index.

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