Historians have traditionally displayed an interest in the institutions within which human action occurs, and much of their work has involved an examination of the interaction between people and these institutions.
An edition of Institutional change and American economic growth
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Institutional change and American economic growth
by Lance Edwin Davis
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Institutional change and American economic growth
1971, University Press
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Institutional change and American economic growth: by Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North. With the assistance of Calla Smorodin.
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First Sentence
"Historians have traditionally displayed an interest in the institutions within which human action occurs, and much of their work has involved an examination of the interaction between people and these institutions."
Table of Contents
Preface.
Preface
Page vii
Part One.
The Theory Developed
Page 1
1.
A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes
Page 3
2.
The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income
Page 26
3.
A theory of institutional innovations: description, analogy, specification
Page 39
4.
Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation
Page 64
Part Two.
The Theory Applied
Page 81
5.
Land policy and American agriculture
Page 83
6.
Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820-1950
Page 105
7.
Transportation developments and economic growth
Page 135
8.
Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization , and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States
Page 167
9.
Institutional change in the service industries
Page 191
10.
The labor force: organization and education
Page 211
Part Three.
Conclusions
Page 247
11.
The changing public-private mix
Page 249
12.
History and analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future
Page 262
Index.
Index
Page 273
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