Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface and acknowledgements -- INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT AND SIGNIFICANCE OF NIE -- THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND THIRD WORLD DEVELOPMENT -- SOCIAL DILEMMAS AND RATIONAL INDIVIDUALS: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE NEW INSTITUTIONALISM -- THE NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT THEORY -- STATE FAILURE IN WEAK STATES: A CRITIQUE OF NEW INSTITUTIONALIST EXPLANATIONS -- MAPS AND LANDSCAPES OF GRAIN MARKETS IN SOUTH ASIA -- INSTITUTIONAL THEORIES AND STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT IN AFRICA -- THE ROLE OF THE STATE: THE CASE OF EGYPT -- COCOA PLANTATIONS IN THE THIRD WORLD, 1870s 1914: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF INEFFICIENCY -- PRODUCTIVITY AND POWER: INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES AND AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN INDIA AND CHINA, 1900 50 -- STATE INTERVENTION IN THE BRAZILIAN COFFEE TRADE DURING THE 1920s: A CASE STUDY FOR NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS? -- INSTITUTIONAL THEORY AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN UGANDA -- THE WORLD BANK AND THE ANALYSIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL DEBT CRISIS -- THE POLITICS OF MONEY IN MID-NINETEENTH-CENTURY ARGENTINA -- POLITICAL FACTORS SHAPING THE ROLE OF FOREIGN FINANCE: THE CASE OF GREECE, 1832 1932 -- REGULATORY REGIMES, CAPITAL MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BRAZIL, MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 1840 1930 -- THE STATE AND THE ECONOMY IN INDONESIA IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES -- EXPLAINING THE ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL SUCCESSES OF RAWLINGS: THE STRENGTHS AND LIMITATIONS OF PUBLIC CHOICE THEORIES -- Bibliography -- Index.