Institutions, property rights, and economic growth : the legacy of Douglass North / edited by Sebastian Galiani, Itai Sened.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Galiani, Sebastián, editor.

Sened, Itai, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil).

North, Douglass C.

Economic history.

Econometrics.

Institutional economics.

Law and economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 327 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Institutions, Property Rights, & Economic Growth

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass C. North, winner of the Nobel Prize and father of the field of new institutional economics. Leading scholars contribute to a substantive discussion that best illustrates the broad reach and depth of Professor North's work. The volume speaks concisely about his legacy across multiple social sciences disciplines, specifically on scholarship pertaining to the understanding of property rights, the institutions that support the system of property rights, and economic growth.

Contents:

The contribution of Douglass C. North to new institutional economics / Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley

Persistence and change in institutions: the evolution of Douglass C. North / John Joseph Wallis

The new institutionalism / Robert Bates

'The rules of the game': what rules? Which game? / Kenneth A. Shepsle

Institutions and sustainability of ecological systems / Elinor Ostrom

Land property rights / Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky

Constitutions as coordinating devices / Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast

Culture, institutions, and modern growth / Joel Mokyr

What really happened during the Glorious Revolution? / Steven C.A. Pincus and James A. Robinson

The grand experiment that wasn't? New institutional economics and the postcommunist experience / Scott Gehlbach and Edmund J. Malesky

Using economic experiments to measure informal institutions / Pamela Jakiela

Experimental evidence on the workings of democratic institutions / Pedro Dal Bó.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-90505-8

1-139-91476-6

1-139-89913-9

1-139-90308-X

1-107-30036-3

1-139-90697-6

1-139-91868-0

1-139-91083-3

1-139-92257-2