creation, maintenance and cultivation of appropriate political and economic institutions ("political and economic design … influence of informal institutions, which undoubtedly create "the spawn, out of all grown up". If the state were to be … understood in its minimal role, i. e. as the guarantee and co-creator of basic "well-established" rules and/or institutions, the …

of institutions (the approach primarily emphasizing the importance of political institutions, the approach primarily … emphasizing the importance of economic institutions) have many common features (subjects, methodology, conclusions, exponents) and … conception of institutions of Douglas North. …