Structure and Change in Economic History

By: Douglass C. North

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Paperback | 8 January 2010 | Edition Number 1

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At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals 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 ideologies 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 agriculture and the neolithic revolution through the political economy of the ancient and medieval worlds to the industrial revolution 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.

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Non-Fiction History Economics Microeconomics Economic History

Preface	p. ix
The Issues	p. 3
An Introduction to the Structure of Economies	p. 13
A Neoclassical Theory of the State	p. 20
A Framework for Analyzing Economic Organization in History	p. 33
Ideology and the Free Rider Problem	p. 45
Structure and Change in Economic History	p. 59
Introduction	p. 71
The First Economic Revolution	p. 72
The Organizational Consequences of the First Economic Revolution	p. 90
Economic Change and Decline in the Ancient World	p. 113
The Rise and Decline of Feudalism	p. 124
Structure and Change in Early Modern Europe	p. 143
The Industrial Revolution Reconsidered	p. 158
The Second Economic Revolution and Its Consequences	p. 171
Structure and Change in the American Economy 1789-1914	p. 187
A Theory of Institutional Change and the Economic History of the Western World	p. 201
Bibliography	p. 211
Index	p. 221
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