Contents
Contributors
Foreword / Robert K. Merton
Introduction
Chapter 1. Sources of the New Institutionalism / Victor Nee
Part I. Insitutitons and Social Norms
Chapter 2. Embeddedness and Beyond: Insitutitons, Exchange, and Social Structure / Victor Nee and Paul Ingram
Chapter 3. Of Coase and Cattle: Dispute Resolution Among Neighbors in Shasta Country / Robert C. Ellickson
Chapter 4. Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies / Avner Greif
Chapter 5. Conflict over Changing Social Norms: Bargaining, Ideology, and Enforcement / Jack Knight and Jean Ensminger
Chapter 6. Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action / Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner
Part II. Insitutional Embeddedness in Capitalist Economies
Chapter 7. The Organization of Economies / Gart G. Hamilton and Robert Feenstra
Chapter 8. Institutional Embeddedness in Japanese Labor Markets / Mary C. Brinton and Takehiko Kariya
Chapter 9. Winner-Take-All Markets and Wage Discrimination / Robert H. Frank
Chapter 10. Institutions and the Labor Market / Bruce Western
Part III. Institutional Change and Economic Performance
Chapter 11. Economic Performance Through Time / Douglass C. North
Chapter 12. Changing the Rules: Interests, Organizations, and Institutional Change in the U.S. Hospitality Industry / Paul Ingram
Chapter 13. The Importance of the Local: Rural Institutions and Economic Change in Preindustrial England / Rosemary L. Hopcroft
Chapter 14. Outline of an Institutionalist Theory of Inequality: The Case of Socialist and Postcommunist Eastern Europe / Ivan Szelenyi and Eric Kostello
Index