Communities and Markets in Economic Development

ISBN: 9780199241019 出版年：2004 页码：444 Oxford University Press

This volume presents historical, contemporary, and theoretical perspectives on the role of local communities and social norms in the economic development process. Using historical evidence combined with recent developments in institutional economics involving game theory and contracts, it establishes that communities can enhance the development of a market economy under certain circumstances — and sheds light on what those circumstances are.