Introduction: Institutional Analysis and Economic History

Douglass C. North and Barry R. Weingast

The Journal of Economic History, 2000, vol. 60, issue 02, pages 414-417

Abstract: The three articles that follow this introductory essay reflect a rapidly growing effort in the social sciences to integrate institutional analysis with more traditional theory. In economic history, institutional analysis attempts to expand and enrich our understanding by modeling the ways in which the rules of the game specifically, political and economic institutions have affected economic behavior. By drawing on the literature of political economy, for example, economic historians can explore how institutions have interacted to affect economic performance over time.

Date: 2000

Downloads: (external link)
http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S002205070000019X link to article abstract page (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cup:jechis:v:60:y:2000:i:02:p:414-417_00

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in The Journal of Economic History from Cambridge University Press
Address: The Edinburgh Building, Shaftesbury Road, Cambridge CB2 2RU UK
Series data maintained by Mike Eden ().