Institutions: Theory and History
Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis

  Contents
Preface
  Part I:  Preliminaries
          1   Introduction
          2   Institutions, Transactions, and Organizations
  Part II:    Institutions as Systems in Equilibria
          3   Private-Order Contract Enforcement Institutions: The Maghribi Traders Coalition
          4   Securing Property Rights from the Grabbing Hand of the State: The Merchant Guild
          5   Endogenous Institutions and Game-Theoretic Analysis
  Part III:    Institutional Dynamics as a Historical Process
          6   A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change
          7   Institutional Trajectories: How Past Institutions Affect Current Ones
          8   Building a State: Genoa’s Rise and Fall
          9   Distinct Institutional Trajectories: Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society
  Part IV:    The Empirical Method of Comparative and Historical Institutional Analysis
        10   The Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange
        11   Interactive, Context-Specific Analysis
  Part V:    Concluding Comments
        12   Institutions, History, and Development
  References
Appendices
  Appendix A   A Primer in Game Theory
  Appendix B   Is Homo Sociologicus Strategic?
  Appendix C   The Role of Theory: Reputation-Based Private-Order