Douglass North is a pivotal figure in the development of the 'new' economic history as well as the 'new' institutional economics. However, the relationship between these two aspects of his thinking remains undeveloped in previous critical assessments of North's work. The relationship is...

Some parallels are drawn between Celso Furtado’s structural and Douglass North’s neo-institutional approaches to economic history. It is argued that both authors interpreted the economic history of Brazil and the United States respectively in the context of the investigation of the economic...

A partir da publicação do livro Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance em 1990 e da obtenção do Nobel em 1993, as contribuições de Douglass North parecem ter entrado definitivamente no debate sobre a questão do desenvolvimento das economias no longo prazo. Muito se...

North, with many other Samuelsonian economists, thinks of “institutions” as budget constraints in a maximization problem. But as Clifford Geertz put it, an institution such as a toll for safe passage is “rather more than a mere payment,” that is, a mere monetary constraint. “It was...

Economics of Institutions constitutes a main field in economics of xxi Century. The New Institutional Economics propelled the «return of institutions» into the research agenda of the mainstream in economics. Ronald Coase provided the notion of transaction costs, Douglass North understood...

Resumen Los ministros Néstor Luis Pérez (1936-1938) y Manuel Rafael Egaña (1938-1941 y 1949) en el gobierno de López Contreras (1936-1941) hicieron importantes contribuciones al desarrollo del marco institucional petrolero después de muerte de Gómez en diciembre de 1935. La gestión de...

This paper aims to propose a reading of [des] political order in Colombia, using as a theoretical source of Douglass North's reflections on the economic formation of political institutions. The contributions of this letter are very preliminary in nature and can better be understood taking into...

En este trabajo se presentan los aspectos más relevantes de la teoría económica institucional, haciendo especial énfasis en los planteamientos de Douglas North (1990, 2005) como marco teórico para el análisis de la creación de empresas. Así pues, se expone la evolución de dicha teoría...

En el presente trabajo se propone que se utilice la Teoría Económica Institucional y más concretamente los planteamientos de Douglass North (1990) como marco teórico para el estudio de los factores que condicionan la creación de empresas. Para ello, se plantea la importancia de las...