Economic behavior and institutions /

Þráinn Eggertsson, 1941-

Economic behavior and institutions / Thrainn Eggertsson. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - xv, 385 p. ; 22 cm. - Cambridge surveys of economic literature .

CONTENTS
preface
Part 1. Introduction to the theory page xi
1 Generalizing Neoclassical Economics: new tools and concepts.....…. 3-28
2 Property rights, agency, and economic organization...….. 33-55
3 Explaining the rules..... 59-75
Part II. Property rights and economic outcomes
4 The economics of exclusive rights
Introduction...…. 83-116
5 The ownership structure of firms and economic outcomes...….. 125-149
Part III. Explaining economic organization
6 The contractual nature of the firm................ 157-189
7 The logic of economic organization.............. 193-231
Part IV. Explaining property rights
8 The emergence of property rights...... 247-277
9 Property rights in stateless societies............ 281-311
10 The state in Neoinstitutional Economics.................. 317-348
References.................. 359
Author index 379
Subject index 382

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Institutional economics.
Right of property.

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