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Publication date: 16 March 2023

Colin Webster

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Rich Crime, Poor Crime: Inequality and the Rule of Law
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-822-2

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Publication date: 6 December 2018

Nigel Culkin and Richard Simmons

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Tales of Brexits Past and Present
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ISBN: 978-1-78769-438-5

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Rich Crime, Poor Crime: Inequality and the Rule of Law
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ISBN: 978-1-83909-822-2

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Publication date: 1 April 2001

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Anti-Corrosion Methods and Materials, vol. 48 no. 2
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ISSN: 0003-5599

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Publication date: 8 May 2018

Nigel Culkin and Richard Simmons

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Mastering Brexits Through The Ages
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ISBN: 978-1-78743-897-2

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Publication date: 13 March 2024

Keanu Telles

The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some…

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The paper provides a detailed historical account of Douglass C. North's early intellectual contributions and analytical developments in pursuing a Grand Theory for why some countries are rich and others poor.

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The author approaches the discussion using a theoretical and historical reconstruction based on published and unpublished materials.

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The systematic, continuous and profound attempt to answer the Smithian social coordination problem shaped North's journey from being a young serious Marxist to becoming one of the founders of New Institutional Economics. In the process, he was converted in the early 1950s into a rigid neoclassical economist, being one of the leaders in promoting New Economic History. The success of the cliometric revolution exposed the frailties of the movement itself, namely, the limitations of neoclassical economic theory to explain economic growth and social change. Incorporating transaction costs, the institutional framework in which property rights and contracts are measured, defined and enforced assumes a prominent role in explaining economic performance.

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In the early 1970s, North adopted a naive theory of institutions and property rights still grounded in neoclassical assumptions. Institutional and organizational analysis is modeled as a social maximizing efficient equilibrium outcome. However, the increasing tension between the neoclassical theoretical apparatus and its failure to account for contrasting political and institutional structures, diverging economic paths and social change propelled the modification of its assumptions and progressive conceptual innovation. In the later 1970s and early 1980s, North abandoned the efficiency view and gradually became more critical of the objective rationality postulate. In this intellectual movement, North's avant-garde research program contributed significantly to the creation of New Institutional Economics.

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EconomiA, vol. ahead-of-print no. ahead-of-print
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ISSN: 1517-7580

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Publication date: 1 October 2004

Stephen Zarlenga

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European Business Review, vol. 16 no. 5
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ISSN: 0955-534X

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Publication date: 2 July 2018

David Chaikin

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Journal of Financial Crime, vol. 25 no. 3
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ISSN: 1359-0790

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On the Horizon, vol. 11 no. 4
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ISSN: 1074-8121

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