Reading List

The ISNIE Reading List includes selected works in New Institutional Economics research recommended by members of the Society, including books written by ISNIE members.  If you would like to recommend a book be included on this page, please send the complete citation via email and we will add the title and a mention of your reference.

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Listings by Author:

• Lee Alston, Thráinn Eggertsson, and Douglass North
  Empirical Studies of Institutional Change, 1996 (paperback or hardcover)
• James Alt, Margaret Levi, Elinor Ostrom
  Competition and Cooperation: Conversations with Nobelists About Economics and Political Science, 1999
• Joachim Ahrens
  Governance and Economic Development: A Comparative Institutional Approach, 2003
• Benito Arrunada
  The Economics of Audit Quality : Private Incentives and the Regulation of Audit and Non-Audit Services, 1999
• Morris L. Bian
  The Making of the State Enterprise System in Modern China: The Dynamics of Institutional Change, 2005
• Serguey Braguinsky and Grigory Yavlinski
  Incentives and Institutions: The Transition to a Market Economy in Russia, 2000
• Eric Brousseau and Jean-Michel Glachant (eds.)
  The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications, 2002
• Ronald H. Coase
  The Firm, the Market, and the Law, 1988
• John Drobak and John V. C. Nye
  The Frontiers of New Institutional Economics, 1997
• Thráinn Eggertsson
  Economic Behavior and Institutions, 1990
• Eirik Furubotn and Rudolf Richter, ed.
  Institutions and Economic Theory: Contributions of the New Institutional Economics (Economics, Cognition and Society), 2005
  The New Institutional Economics: A Collection of Articles from the Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 1992
• Harvey S. James, Jr.
  New Ideas In Contracting And Organizational Economics Research, 2005
• Peter G. Klein
  The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, 2010
  (ed. with Michael E. Sykuta)
• Richard N. Langlois and Paul L. Robertson
  Firms, Markets, and Economic Change: A Dynamic Theory of Business Institutions, 1995.
• Chris Mantzavinos
  Individuals, Institutions, and Markets, 2001
• Scott Masten
  The Economics of Transaction Costs, 1999
  (ed. with Oliver Williamson)
  Case Studies in Contracting and Organization, 1995, ed.
• Claude Ménard
  Handbook of New Institutional Economics, 2005 (hardcover) or 2008 (paperback)
  (ed. with Mary Shirley)
  The International Library of the New Institutional Economics, 2005, ed.
  Institutions, Contracts and Organizations: Perspectives from New Institutional Economics, 2001, ed.
  Transaction Cost Economics: Recent Development, 1997
• Carrie A. Meyer
  The Economics and Politics of NGOs in Latin America, 1999
• Douglass C. North
  Understanding the Process of Economic Change, 2005
  Institutions, Institutional Change, and Economic Performance, 1990
  Structure and Change in Economics History, 1982
  The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History, 1976
  (with Robert Thomas)
• P.K. Rao
  The Economics of Transaction Costs: Theory, Methods and Applications, 2003. 
• Ekkehart Schlicht
  On Custom in the Economy, 1998. 
• Mary Shirley
  Institutions and Development (Advances in New Institutional Analysis), 2008
  Handbook of New Institutional Economics, 2005 (hardcover) or 2008 (paperback)
  (ed. with Claude Ménard)
  Bureaucrats in Business (World Bank Policy Report), 1996
• Pablo Spiller
  
  The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina: A Transaction Cost Approach, 2007
  (with Mariano Tommasi)
  Spilled Water: Institutional Commitment in the Provision of Water Services, 1999
  (with William Savedoff)
  Regulations, Institutions and Commitment: Comparative Studies in Telecommunications, 1996
  (ed. with Brian Levy)
  Strategy, Structure and Antitrust in the Carbonated Soft-Drink Industry, 1993
  (with Timothy Muris)
• Michael Sykuta
  The Elgar Companion to Transaction Cost Economics, 2010
  (ed. with Peter G. Klein)
• Stefan Voigt
  Explaining Constitutional Change: A Positive Economic Approach, 1999
• Oliver Williamson
  The Economics of Transaction Costs, 1999
  (ed. with Scott Masten)
  The Mechanisms of Governance, 1996
  The Nature of the Firm: Origins, Evolution, and Development, 1993
  (ed. with Sidney Winter)
  The Economic Institutions of Capitalism: Firms, Markets and Relational Contracting, 1985
• Timothy Yeager
  Institutions, Transition Economies, and Economic Development, 1999