Institutional change and American economic growth
By: by Lance E. Davis and Douglass C. North. With the assistance of Calla Smorodin.
Contributors: North, Douglass Cecil, joint author.; Smorodin, Calla, joint author.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Cambridge [Eng.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: United States -- Economic conditions; United States -- Economic conditions -- Mathematical models
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: label: Preface
title: Preface
pagenum: vii; label: Part One
title: The Theory Developed
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes
pagenum: 3; label: 2
title: The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income
pagenum: 26; label: 3
title: A theory of institutional innovations: description, analogy, specification
pagenum: 39; label: 4
title: Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation
pagenum: 64; label: Part Two
title: The Theory Applied
pagenum: 81; label: 5
title: Land policy and American agriculture
pagenum: 83; label: 6
title: Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820-1950
pagenum: 105; label: 7
title: Transportation developments and economic growth
pagenum: 135; label: 8
title: Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization , and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States
pagenum: 167; label: 9
title: Institutional change in the service industries
pagenum: 191; label: 10
title: The labor force: organization and education
pagenum: 211; label: Part Three
title: Conclusions
pagenum: 247; label: 11
title: The changing public-private mix
pagenum: 249; label: 12
title: History and analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future
pagenum: 262; label: Index
title: Index
pagenum: 273