Institutions, Property Rights, and Economic Growth: The Legacy of Douglass North

Cambridge University Press, 4/17/2014
EAN 9781107041554, ISBN10: 1107041554

Hardcover, 338 pages, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.2 cm
Language: English

This volume showcases the impact of the work of Douglass 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.

1. Introduction Itai Sened and Sebastian Galiani
2. The contribution of Douglass North to new institutional economics Claude Ménard and Mary M. Shirley
3. Persistence and change in institutions
the evolution of Douglass North John Joseph Wallis
4. The new institutionalism Robert Bates
5. 'The rules of the game'
what rules? Which game? Kenneth A. Shepsle
6. Institutions and sustainability of ecological systems Elinor Ostrom
7. Land property rights Sebastian Galiani and Ernesto Schargrodsky
8. Endogenous institutions
law as a coordinating device Gillian K. Hadfield and Barry R. Weingast
9. Culture, institutions, and modern growth Joel Mokyr
10. What really happened during the Glorious Revolution? Steven C. A. Pincus and James A. Robinson
11. The grand experiment that wasn't? New institutional economics and the postcommunist experience Scott Gehlbach and Edmund J. Malesky
12. Using economic experiments to measure informal institutions Pamela Jakiela
13. Experimental evidence on the workings of democratic institutions Pedro Dal Bó.