Institutional change and American economic growth
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Institutional change and American economic growth
Cambridge University Press, 2008
- : pbk
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  Tochigi
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
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  United States of America
Note
"First published 1971. This digitally printed version 2008"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book presents a model for examining problems of institutional change and applies it to American economic development in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The authors develop their model of institutional change. They argue that if external economic factors make an increase in income possible but not attainable within the existing institutional structure, new organizations must be developed to achieve the potential in income. Their model is designed to explain the type and timing of these necessary changes in institutional organization. Individual, voluntary cooperative, and governmental arrangements are included in the discussion, although the latter differs considerably from the first two.
Table of Contents
- Part I. The Theory Developed: 1. A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes
- 2. The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income
- 3. A theory of institutional innovation: description, analogy, specification
- 4. Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation
- Part II. The Theory Applied: 5. Land policy and American agriculture
- 6. Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820-1950
- 7. Transportation developments and economic growth
- 8. Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization, and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States
- 9. Institutional change in the service industries
- 9. The labor force: organization and education
- Part III. Conclusions: 11. The changing public-private mix
- 12. History and the analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future.
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