Against the background of a definition of institutional economics and in the light of the traditional critique directed against it the author outlines the main preoccupations and major contributions ...

The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 37, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 271-281 (11 pages) The influence of institutional economics is determined more by the contributions of outstanding ...

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ON MONDAY Douglass North died at the age of 95. Mr North was an American economic historian, who shared the Nobel prize in economic science with Robert Fogel, another economic historian, in 1993.

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If you're a layperson, you probably haven't heard of either Elinor Ostrom or Oliver Williamson, the two American economists sharing this year's Nobel prize in economics for their work in "economic ...

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