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  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    by Douglass C. North ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Violence and Social Orders

    A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History

    by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast ...
    All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged interests. These ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • The Rise of the Western World

    A New Economic History

    by Douglass C. North, 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. ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

  • In the Shadow of Violence

    Politics, Economics, and the Problems of Development

    Edited by Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Steven B. Webb, Barry R. Weingast ...
    This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordinate coalitions of powerful organizations. Rather than castigating politicians and elites as simply ... Read more

    $49.59 CAD

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    Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    by Douglass C. North ...
    Narrated by Mike Chamberlain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies.Institutions exist due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Government and the American Economy

    A New History

    by Price V. Fishback ...
    The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In The Government and the American Economy, leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America's open-access society and the roles played by government ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paddling Washington

    Flatwater and Whitewater Routes in Washington State and the Inland Northwest

    by Rich Landers, Verne Huser, Dan Hansen, Douglass North ...
    * 112 routes in rivers, streams, lakes, and bays in the Northwest* For paddlers of all skill levels* Maps, safety tips, equipment requirements, and a route comparison chartThis uniquely comprehensive Washington paddling guidebook combines the best of three previous books--Paddle Routes of the Inland Northwest, Paddle Routes of Western Washington, and Washington Whitewater--into one volume. ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Culture Matters in Russia—and Everywhere

    Backdrop for the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

    by Lawrence Harrison, Evgeny Yasin, Oscar Árias Sánchez, Miguel Basáñez, Marita Carballo, Valery Chirkov, Oleg Chirkunov, Daniel Etounga-Manguelle, James Fox0, Mariano Grondona1, Geert Hofstede2, Ronald Inglehart3, Josef Joffe4, Jerome Kagan5, Irina Karatsuba6, Rob Kleinbaum7, Borris Knorre8, Andrei Konchalovsky9, Deepak Lal0, Nadezhda Lebedeva1, Vladimir Magun2, Matteo Marini3, Eric Maskin4, Richard Nisbett5, Douglass North6, Rachel Okunubi7, Fernando Reimers8, Maksim Rudnev9, Reese Schonfeld0, Shalom Schwartz1, Maria Snegovaya2, Guido Tabellini3, Katherine Taylor4, Natalya Tikhonova5, Pervez Hoodbhoy6, William Easterly7, Richard Lamm8, Tu Weiming9 ...
    This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

  • Let the People Judge

    Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement

    by Grant Ferrier, Suzanne Iudicello, Jack Archer, Mary Ann Glendon, Carl Safina, Thomas Eisner, Michael Bliss, Donald Connors, Randall Snodgrass, Beverly Reece, Tom H. Watkins, Roy Morgan, Jim Bernfield, Neil Hamilton, Beth Parke, Sharon Dennis, Janet Ellis, Don Judge, Robert Ekey, Thomas Michael Power, Florence Williams, Robert Woodmansee, Dana Larsen, Henry Carey, Meri Loeks, Linda Trocki, Eve Pell, Tarso Ramos, Douglass North, Philip Brick, Jon Roush, Teresa Erickson, William Riebsame, Holmes Rolston, III ...
    One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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    This Time is Different

    Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

    by Carmen Reinhart, Kenneth S. Rogoff ...
    Narrated by Sean Pratt ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 55 min

    Throughout history, rich and poor countries alike have been lending, borrowing, crashing--and recovering--their way through an extraordinary range of financial crises. Each time, the experts have chimed, "this time is different"--claiming that the old rules of valuation no longer apply and that the new situation bears little similarity to past disasters. This book proves that premise wrong. ... Read more

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  • Development as Freedom

    by Amartya Sen ...
    By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom ... Read more

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  • The History of Money

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    “If you’re interested in the revolutionary transformation of the meaning and use of money, this is the book to read!”—Charles R. SchwabCultural anthropologist Jack Weatherford traces our relationship with money, from primitive man’s cowrie shells to the electronic cash card, from the markets of Timbuktu to the New York Stock Exchange. The History of Money explores how money and the myriad forms of ... Read more

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