The frontiers of the new institutional economics /
edited by John N. Drobak, John V.C. Nye.
- xx, 374 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Douglass C. North and Economic Theory -- The Political Economy of Warfare and Taxation in Early Modern Europe: Historical Lessons for Economic Development -- On the Interrelations and Economic Implications of Economic, Social, Political, and Normative Factors: Reflections from Two Late Medieval Societies -- Cultural Values, Ideological Beliefs, and Changing Labor Institutions: Notes on Their Interactions -- Thinking about the State: Property Rights, Trade, and Changing Contractual Arrangements in a World with Coercion -- Violence and the Development of Property Rights to Land in the Brazilian Amazon -- Changing Property Rights: Reconciling Formal and Informal Rights to Land in Africa -- Intertemporal Institutions -- The Political Foundations of Limited Government: Parliament and Sovereign Debt in 17th- and 18th-Century England -- Credible Commitment in the United States: Substantive and Structural Limits on the Avoidance of Public Debt -- Economic Reason: The Interplay of Individual Learning and External Structure -- Beyond Rational Expectations: Indeterminacy in Economic and Financial Markets -- Making Use of Treacherous Advice: Cognitive Process, Bayesian Adaptation, and the Tenacity of Unreliable Knowledge -- Index. I. II. III. IV. V. VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV.