Contents
Series editor's preface
Preface

Part I Institutions
1 An introduction to institutions and institutional change
2 Cooperation: the theoretical problem
3 The behavioral assumptions in a theory of institutions
4 A transaction cost theory of exchange
5 Informal constraints
6 Formal constraints
7 Enforcement
8 Institutions and transaction and transformation costs

Part II Institutional change
9 Organizations, learning, and institutional change to Stability and institutional change
11 The path of institutional change

Part III Economic performance
12. Institutions, economic theory, and economic performance
13 Stability and change in economic history
14 lncorporating institutional analysis into economic history: prospects and puzzles

References
Index