Explorations in the new economic history : essays in honor of Douglass C. North - North, Douglass C. (Douglass Cecil); Ransom, Roger L., 1938-; Sutch, Richard; Walton, Gary M. (New York : Academic Press, 1982)
Douglass North as a teacher / Jonathan R.T. Hughes -- Douglass North and the New Economic History / Richard Sutch -- The cost of empire / Lance E. Davis and Robert A. Huttenback -- The antebellum interregional trade hypothesis : a reexamination of theory and evidence / Lloyd J. Mercer -- Staples and eighteenth-century Canadian development : the case of Newfoundland / James F. Shepherd -- In search of security : the growth of government spending in the United States, 1902-1970 / Roger L. Ransom -- The historical analysis of national welfare systems / Gaston V. Rimlinger -- A theory of regenerative growth and the experience of post-World War II West Germany / Donald F. Gordon and Gary M. Walton -- Institutional change through the Supreme Court and the rise of transfer activity / Terry L. Anderson and P.J. Hill -- The market and government-sponsored industry / Philip R.P. Coelho and David R. Knowles -- Economic behavior in the ancient world / Gerold A. Gunderson -- Testing the impact of exclusive property rights : the case of enclosing common fields / Bennett Baack -- Customary law, markets, and resource transactions in Late Imperial Chino / Ramon H. Myers.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: North, Douglass C; Economic history