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XXX-1 | 2015
La mesure des changements institutionnels

Taking the Measure of Institutional Change
208 pages
ISBN 978-2-7132-2473-7

Since it gained currency in the 1960s and 1970s, the economics of institutions has been very successful. This approach placed institutions – public institutions and companies – at the heart of analysis in order to afford a new perspective on pre-capitalist markets and institutions in Europe and elsewhere, over the long term. However, if there is a justification for all institutions and economic forms, then how can we explain their transformation, if not disappearance, and the formation of new institutions without lapsing into justification after the fact? How can the efficiency of institutions be measured? How can institutional change be proven to have resulted from that greater efficiency? Prompted by questions such as these, we asked authors working on different periods and regions of the world to clarify the role of institutions and markets in their respective fields: the corvée, or compulsory labour, in eighteenth-century France; credit in Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; services and communications in the USSR; and institutions in post-colonial Africa.

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