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" Understanding the process of economic change / "
Douglass C. North
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BL
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632338
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North, Douglass Cecil
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Understanding the process of economic change /\ Douglass C. North
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, c2005
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The Princeton economic history of the Western world
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xi, 187 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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0691118051 (alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-181) and index
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| Contents
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An outline of the process of economic change -- The 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?
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Evolutionary economics
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Economics-- Sociological aspects
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Institutional economics
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HB97.3.N67 2005
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