Institutional Change and American Economic Growth
Part I. The Theory Developed: 1. A theory of institutional change: concepts and causes 2. The government, coercion, and the redistribution of income 3. A theory of institutional innovation: description, analogy, specification 4. Changes in the institutional environment: exogenous shifts and arrangemental innovation Part II. The Theory Applied: 5. Land policy and American agriculture 6. Organization and reorganization in the financial markets: savings and investment in the American economy, 1820-1950 7. Transportation developments and economic growth 8. Economies of scale, unsuccessful cartelization, and external costs: some sidelights on the growth of manufacturing in the United States 9. Institutional change in the service industries 9. The labor force: organization and education Part III. Conclusions: 11. The changing public-private mix 12. History and the analysis of arrangemental change: a look to the past with an eye to the future.