Understanding the Process of Economic Change North Douglass C.Paperback
Understanding the Process of Economic Change North Douglass C.Paperback In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies…
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Understanding the Process of Economic Change North Douglass C.Paperback
In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. As he showed in two now classic books that inspired the New Institutional Economics (today a subfield of economics), property rights and transaction costs are fundamental determinants. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets.
Here, North explains how different societies arrive at the institutional infrastructure that greatly determines their economic trajectories.North argues that economic change depends largely on adaptive efficiency, a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted--and, importantly, flexible enough to be changed or