Understanding the Process of Economic Change / / Douglass C. North.

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• VerfasserIn: North, Douglass C.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World ; 32
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (200 p.) :; 12 line illus. 1 table.

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. 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 inst...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Chapter One. An Outline of the Process of Economic Change
• Part I. The Issues Involved in Understanding Economic Change
• Introduction
• Chapter Two. Uncertainty in a Non-ergodic World
• Chapter Three. Belief Systems, Culture, and Cognitive Science
• Chapter Four. Consciousness and Human Intentionality
• Chapter Five. The Scaffolds Humans Erect
• Chapter Six. Taking Stock
• Part II. The Road Ahead
• Introduction
• Chapter Seven. The Evolving Human Environment
• Chapter Eight. The Sources of Order and Disorder
• Chapter Nine. Getting It Right and Getting It Wrong
• Chapter Ten. The Rise of the Western World
• Chapter Eleven. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union
• Chapter Twelve. Improving Economic Performance
• Chapter Thirteen. Where Are We Going?
• Bibliography
• Index