| | | List of figures | | |
| | | List of tables | | |
| | | List of contributors | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| | | Introduction by Claude Menard | | |
| 1 | | The new institutional economics by Ronald H. Coase | | 3 |
| 2 | | Understanding institutions by Douglass C. North | | 7 |
| 3 | | Institutional evolution as punctuated equilibria by Masahiko Aoki | | 11 |
| 4 | | A revolution in economics by Douglass C. North | | 37 |
| 5 | | Ronald Coase and the new microeconomics by Lars Werin | | 42 |
| 6 | | Ronald Harry Coase: institutional economist/institution builder by Oliver E. Williamson | | 48 |
| 7 | | Ronald H. Coase and the emergence of a new approach to economics by Claude Menard | | 54 |
| 8 | | List of publications by Ronald H. Coase | | 59 |
| 9 | | Dogs and tails in the economic development story by Harold Demsetz | | 69 |
| 10 | | Formal versus informal institutions in economic development by Philip Keefer and Mary M. Shirley | | 88 |
| 11 | | Inequality, institutions and differential paths of growth among New World economies by Stanley L. Engerman and Stephen H. Haber and Kenneth L. Sokoloff | | 108 |
| 12 | | When good defenses make good neighbors: a transaction cost approach to trust, the absence of trust and distrust by Margaret Levi | | 137 |
| 13 | | Experimental economics in the bush: why institutions matter by Jean Ensminger | | 158 |
| 14 | | The impact of paternalism on racial land rental differences in the USA by Lee J. Alston and Kyle D. Kauffman | | 172 |
| 15 | | Institutionalized corruption and the kleptocratic state by Joshua Charap and Christian Harm | | 188 |
| 16 | | The state and the diversity of third-party enforcers by Yoram Barzel | | 211 |
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