Recoge: 1.Introducction: development and significance of NIE - 2.The new institutional economics and third world development 3.Social dilemmas and rational individuals: an assessment of the new institutionalism - 4.The new institutional economics and its implications for development theory - 5.State failure in weak states: a critique of new institutionalist explanations - 6.Maps and ladscapes of grain markets in South Asia - 7.Institutional theories and structural adjustment in Africa - 8.The role of the state: the case of Egypt - 9.Cocoa plantations in the third world, 1870s -1914: the political economy of inefficiency - 10.Productivity and power: institutional structures and agricultural performance in India and Cina, 1900-50 - 11.State intervention in the brazilian coffee trade during the q920s: a case study for new institutional - 12.Institutional theory and social change in uganda - 13.The world bank and the analysis of the international debt crisis - 14.The politics of money in mid-nineteenth-century Argentina - 15.Political factors shaping the role of foreign finance: the case of Greece, 1832-1932 - 16.Regulatory regimes, capital markets and industrial development: a comparative study of Brazil, Mexico and the United States of America, 1840-1930 - 17.The state and the economy in Indonesia in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries - 18.Explaning the economic and political successes of rawlings: the strengths and limitations of public choice theories.