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Alston, Lee J., Thráinn Eggertsson, and Douglass C. North (eds.). Empirical Studies in Institutional Change. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
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Table of contents
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| List of contributors | vii |
| Series editors’ preface | ix |
| Acknowledgements | xi |
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| Introduction | 1 |
| Lee J. Alston, Thráinn Eggertson and Douglass C. North | |
| A note on the economics of institutions | 6 |
| Thráinn Eggertson | |
| Empirical work in institutional economics: an overview | 25 |
| Lee J. Alston | |
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| 1. Toward an understanding of property rights | 31 |
| Economic variables and the development of the law: the case of western mineral rights | 34 |
| Gary D. Libecap | |
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| 2. Impediments to institutional change in the former Soviet system | 59 |
| Why economic reforms fail in the Soviet system: a property rights-based approach | 63 |
| Jan Winiecki | |
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| 3. Transaction costs and economic development | 92 |
| Public institutions and private transactions: a comparative analysis of the legal and regulatory environment for business transactions in Brazil and Chile | 95 |
| Andrew Stone, Brian Levy, and Ricardo Paredes | |
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| 4. The evolution of modern institutions of growth | 129 |
| Constitutions and commitment: the evolution of institutions governing public choice in seventeenth-century England | 134 |
| Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast | |
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| 5. Regulation in a dynamic setting | 166 |
| The political economy of controls: American sugar | 169 |
| Anne O. Krueger | |
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| 6. Price controls, property rights, and institutional change | 219 |
| Roofs or stars: the states intents and actual efforts of a rents ordinance | 224 |
| Steven N.S. Cheung | |
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| 7. Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights | 244 |
| Legally induced technical regress in the Washington salmon fishery | 247 |
| Robert Higgs | |
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| 8. The politics of institutional change in a representative democracy | 280 |
| A political theory of the origin of property rights: airport slots | 283 |
| William H. Riker and Itai Sened | |
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| 9. The economics and politics of institutional change | 304 |
| Paternalism in agricultural labor contracts in the U.S. South: implications for the growth of the welfare state | 307 |
| Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie | |
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| Epilogue: economic performance through time | 342 |
| Douglass C. North | |
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| Author index | 357 |
| Subject index | 359 |
