TY - BOOK AU - Drobak,John N. AU - Nye,John V.C. TI - The frontiers of the new institutional economics SN - 0122222407 AV - HB99.5. F76 1997 U1 - 330 PY - 1997///] CY - San Diego PB - Academic Press KW - Institutional economics N1 - 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 ER -