New Institutionalist Economic History of Douglass C. North

Matthijs Krul was until recently Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle (Saale), Germany. He has been a visiting lecturer at Brunel University and the University of Westminster, UK. His work focuses on the intersection between the historiography and the philosophy of economics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Douglass North's NIEH in Context.- Chapter 2: North's NIEH in Historical Overview.- Chapter 3: Markets, the Social Contract, and the 'Smithian Result'.- Chapter 4: Players of the Game: Rationality, Choice, and Indeterminacy.- Chapter 5: North's Theory of Cultural Evolution.- Chapter 6: North's NIEH as Global History.- Chapter 7: Revisiting Polanyi's Challenge: North and the Limits of the New Institutionalism.- Chapter 8: Conclusion: The Future of the Neoinstitutionalist Turn.