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One: The Framework for Economic Analysis --;1 Important Concepts in Economics --;2 The Coase Theorem and Transaction Costs --;Two: Institutions, Property Rights, and Systems --;3 Institutions --;4 Law and Institutions --;5 Property Rights --;6 Capitalism and Socialism --;Three: Property Rights, Exchange, and Production --;7 Private Property Rights, Exchange and Production --;8 Restrictions on Ownership, Exchange, and Production --;9 Free-Market Economies, the State, and Policy-Making --;10 Property Rights in Socialism, Exchange and Production --;11 Trade (Exchange), and Growth Under Different Institutional Arrangements --;Four: Property Rights and Business Firms --;12 The Firm and Contracts --;13 Capitalist Firms --;14 Socialism: The Labor-Managed Firm --;15 Property Rights, Business Firms and Innovation.
The purpose of this book is to redirect study of what we called comparative economic systems toward analysis of the development of institutions and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic performance.