The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development Book

	List of Illustrations
	Notes on Contributors
	Preface and Acknowledgements
1	Introduction: Development and Significance of NIE	1
2	The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development	17
3	Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An Assessment of the New Institutionalism	27
4	The New Institutional Economics and Its Implications for Development Theory	49
5	State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations	71
6	Maps and Landscapes of Grain Markets in South Asia	87
7	Institutional Theories and Structural Adjustment in Africa	109
8	The Role of the State: The Case of Egypt	133
9	Cocoa Plantations in the Third World, 1870s-1914: The Political Economy of Inefficiency	157
10	Productivity and Power: Institutional Structures and Agricultural Performance in India and China, 1900-50	172
11	State Intervention in the Brazilian Coffee Trade During the 1920s: A Case Study for New Institutional Economics?	184
12	Institutional Theory and Social Change in Uganda	200
13	The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis	215
14	The Politics of Money in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Argentina	233
15	Political Factors Shaping the Role of Foreign Finance: The Case of Greece, 1832-1932	250
16	Regulatory Regimes, Capital Markets And Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico and the United States of America, 1840-1930	265
17	The State and the Economy in Indonesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries	283
18	Explaining the Economic and Political Successes of Rawlings: The Strengths and Limitations of Public Choice Theories	306
	Bibliography	323
	Index	354