The New Institutionalist Economic History of Douglass C. North A Critical Interpretation /

• Main Author: Krul, Matthijs (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Evolutionary economics.; Culture-Economic aspects.; History of Economic Thought/Methodology.; Institutional/Evolutionary Economics.; Economic History.; Cultural Economics.

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of Douglass North's contribution to economics and the social sciences by examining the origins and structure of his New Institutionalist Economic History (NIEH). Informed by contemporary debates in the philosophy of economics, Krul describes the evolu...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Douglass North's NIEH in Context
• Chapter 2: North's NIEH in Historical Overview
• Chapter 3: Markets, the Social Contract, and the 'Smithian Result'
• Chapter 4: Players of the Game: Rationality, Choice, and Indeterminacy
• Chapter 5: North's Theory of Cultural Evolution
• Chapter 6: North's NIEH as Global History
• Chapter 7: Revisiting Polanyi's Challenge: North and the Limits of the New Institutionalism
• Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Future of the Neoinstitutionalist Turn.