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020			_a978-8171885284
100			_aNorth, Douglass C
245			_aUnderstanding the process of economic change
260			_c2006 _bAcademic Foundation _aNew Delhi
300			_axi,187p. _b24 cm ; Hard Bound
500			_aRs.695/-
505			_aThe issues involved in understanding economic change -- Uncertainty in a non-ergodic world -- Belief systems, culture, and cognitive science -- Consciousness and human intentionality -- The scaffolds humans erect -- Taking stock -- The road ahead -- The evolving human environment -- The sources of order and disorder -- Getting it right and getting it wrong -- The rise of the Western world -- The rise and fall of the Soviet Union -- Improving economic performance -- Where are we going?
520			_aIn this landmark work, a Nobel-prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets. As he showed in two now classic books that inspired the New Institutional Economics
650			_aEconomic Development _aEvolutionary economics _aEconomics--Sociological aspects
942			_cBK
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