Economic Interests and Institutions: The Conceptual Foundations of Public Policy

Abstract

1. Economic Interests and Institutions I The Intellectual Problem II The Plan of the Book Part I Interests and Institutions 2. On Institutional Change: The Conventional Views I The Property-Rights View II Induced Institutional Change III The North Model of Institutional Change IV An Expanded View of Institutional Change 3. The Nature of Institutions I The Practice of Institutions II The Concept of Institutions III Institutions as Legal Relations IV Institutions and Markets: The Economy as a Set of Ordered Relations V The Normative Content of Institutions VI Individuals, Markets, and Coercion VII Summary 4. Preferences, Choices and Institutions I Preferences, Revealed and Otherwise II Preferences and Choices III Summary Part II Institutional Change 5. Institutional Transactions I The Economy and Institutional Change II Institutions and Efficiency, Again III On Efficiency and Optimality IV Institutional Transactions V Summary 6. Interests, Institutions, and the Framing of Choice I Missing Markets, Present-Valued Caims and Discounted Interests II Entitlements, Risk and Choices III Entitlements and Efficiency: Reallocating Economic Opportunity IV Language and Concepts: Productivity and Efficiency V Summary 7. Property Rights and Institutional Change I Concepts of Property in Economics II The Essence of Ownership III The Philosophical Case for Private Property IV The Practice of Property V Property Entitlements VI Summary Part III Institutions and Policy Analysis 8. Theory Science and Policy Science: Beyond Positivism I Beyond Positivism: Policy Science and Theory Science II Institutions and a New Research Philosophy III Summary 9. The Policy Problem.