An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis

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 revo

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change is a collection of nine empirical studies by fourteen scholars. Dealing with issues ranging from the evolution of secu

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change.