Structure and Change in Economic History

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Structure and Change in Economic History DOUGLASS C. NORTH
In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western économies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuáis and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources.
In six theoretical chapters, Professor North examines the structure of economic systems, outlines an economic theory of the state and the idéologies that undergird various modes of economic Organization, and then explores the dynamic forces such as new technologies that cause institutions to adapt in order to survive. With this analytical framework in place, major phases in Western history come under careful reappraisal, from the origins of agrifcul-ture and the neolithic révolution through the political economy of the ancient and medieval worlds to the industrial révolution and... Tovább

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Structure and Change in Economic History DOUGLASS C. NORTH
In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western économies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuáis and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources.
In six theoretical chapters, Professor North examines the structure of economic systems, outlines an economic theory of the state and the idéologies that undergird various modes of economic Organization, and then explores the dynamic forces such as new technologies that cause institutions to adapt in order to survive. With this analytical framework in place, major phases in Western history come under careful reappraisal, from the origins of agrifcul-ture and the neolithic révolution through the political economy of the ancient and medieval worlds to the industrial révolution and the economic transformations of the twentieth Century.
Structure and Change in Economic History is a work that will reshape many established explanations of the growth of the West. Douglass C. North is professor of économies at Washington Uni-versity in St. Louis. His other books include The Economic Growth of the United States, 1790-1860, also published in a Norton paperback édition. Vissza