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    Understanding the Process of Economic Change.Douglass C. North - 2010 - Princeton University Press.
    This book is vintage North."--Barry Weingast, Professor of Political Science, Stanford University "In this book Douglass North once again opens new frontiers in economic research.
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  2. Shared mental models: Ideologies and institutions.Arthur T. Denzau & Douglass C. North - 1994 - Kyklos 47 (1):3–31.
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  3. Lernen, Institutionen und Wirtschaftsleistung.C. Mantzavinos, Douglass C. North & Syed Shariq - 2005 - Analyse & Kritik 27 (2):320-337.
    This article provides a broad overview of the interplay among cognition, belief systems and institutions, fleshing out a position best characterized as 'cognitive institutionalism'. We argue that a deeper understanding of institutions, emergence, their working properties and their effect on economic performance should start with the analysis of cognitive processes. Exploring the nature of individual and collective learning the article suggests that the issue is not whether agents are perfectly or boundedly rational, but rather how human beings actually reason and (...)
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  4. Is it worth making sense of Marx?Douglass C. North - 1986 - Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 29 (1-4):57 – 63.
    This essay explores Elster's analysis of Marx's theory of historical evolution. The meaning of the terras ?productive forces? and the ?relations of production? are examined both as specified by Marx and interpreted by Elster. The essay then goes on to demonstrate how the modern literature on transaction costs can provide a more precise and useful framework within which to explore the ongoing tension between productive forces and relations of production.
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    Comments.Douglass C. North - 2000 - In Masahiko Aoki & Yujiro Hayami (eds.), Communities and Markets in Economic Development. Oxford University Press UK.
    This section presents Douglass North’s comments on the drafts of the chapters discussed during the final conference leading to the current book. He discusses the fundamentals of human interaction, and argues that a useful common denominator of human interaction is a transaction cost approach. Human beings are concerned with costs of measurement, enforcement, and different kinds of exchange conditions. Thus, they follow very different patterns, which have been elucidated in a number of papers in the conference. He makes special mention (...)
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    Institutions and Economics.Douglass C. North - 1998 - In George Graham & William Bechtel (eds.), A Companion to Cognitive Science. Blackwell. pp. 713–721.
    Economic theory is built on assumptions about human behavior – assumptions which are embodied in rational choice theory. Underlying those assumptions are implicit notions about how the mind works. Until recently economists have not self‐consciously examined those implicit notions, but recent work in economics and particularly game theory has forced economists to explore the sources of the beliefs that underlie economic choices and therefore to build a bridge between cognitive science and economics. In this essay I explore the path of (...)
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    On Kenneth Binmore’s Natural Justice.Douglass C. North - 2006 - Analyse & Kritik 28 (1):102-103.
    Ken Binmore has written an exciting book and I am in complete agreement with his objectives and conclusions. But his approach is flawed because of his reliance on tools of analysis to understand the way the mind and brain have developed that are not up to explaining our evolving understanding of the human environment.
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    Toward a Property-Rights Theory of Exploitation.Douglass C. North & Margaret Levi - 1982 - Politics and Society 11 (3):315-320.
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