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- Product code: 16877
- ISBN: 0521397340,
ISBN13: 9780521397346,
159 pages, paperback
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1st edition, 1991
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Description of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance |
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
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Contents of Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance |
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.
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