Douglass C. North

An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.

Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

Barry R. Weingast

John Joseph Wallis

This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.

A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

Violence and Social Orders

في ظل العنف

Насилие и социальные порядки

Robert Paul Thomas

First published in 1973, this is a radical interpretation, offering a unified explanation for the growth of Western Europe between 900 A. D. and 1700, providing a general theoretical framework for institutional change geared to the general reader.

A New Economic History

The Rise of the Western World

Limited Access Orders in the Developing World: a New Approach to the Problems of Development

Steven B. Webb

This book explains how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations.

Douglass C. North

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