Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that inte…
This book discusses the Chinese and Japanese in terms of global power. The book consists of 12 chapters divided in two parts and some postscripts about China's sinocentrism and the middle kingdom complex, maoist ideology and China's long run objectives, population, economics, and sociopolitical organization of China, China's military establishment, its foreign policy and ideological commitment …