| Introduction | 7
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| Chapter 1. Institutional Factors of Economic Changes | 9
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| Introduction | 9
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| 1. Douglas North Theory: Separate Features | 9
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| 2. Ideas on Economic Changes: Following North | 18
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| 3. Institutions and Agents Interaction | 23
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| 4. Institutional Macroeconomics: How Important the Irrational Principle Is | 32
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| Chapter 2. Institutional Theory of Economic Growth: Basic Imperatives | 41
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| 1. Institutionalism and the Study of Economic Changes and Growth | 41
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| 2. Economic Growth and Technological Changes | 44
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| 3. Institutions and Economic Growth | 48
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| 4. Institutions Adaptation and Economic Growth | 58
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| 5. Institutional Macroeconomics and Technological Changes: Microbases | 62
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| Chapter 3. Institutional Theory of Technological Changes: Definitions, Classification and Models | 72
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| 1. Technologies: Classification and Structure | 72
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| 2. Economic Analysis of Technological Changes | 82
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| 3. Firm and Technologies: Institutional Condition of Growth | 89
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| 4. Economic theory of technological changes: basic principles | 101
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| 4.1. Conditions of Technological Development | 101
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| 4.2. Trajectories of Technological Development | 105
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| Chapter 4. Structural Modelling of Economic Growth: Technological Changes | 113
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| Introduction | 113
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| 1. Statement of Structural Problem of Economic Growth | 115
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| 2. Technological Growth of Economic Systems | 122
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| 3. Modes of Competitive Development of Old and New Technological Combinations: Random Example | 133
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| Chapter 5. New Institutionalism: «Traps», Transactional Costs and Coase Theorem | 141
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| 1. Institutions Inefficiency and Defects of the Concept of “Institutional Traps” | 141
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| 2. Transactional Costs and Coase Theorem Specification of Deforming Explanations | 151
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| Chapter 6. Theory of Efficiency Economic Systems | 162
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| Introduction | 162
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| 1. Maximum efficiency and exchange | 163
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| 2. Economic, Social and Ecological Efficiency | 172
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| Chapter 7. Entrepreneurship and Institutional Principles of Assets Privatization and Nationalization | 183
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| 1. Entrepreneurship in Economy and Economics | 183
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| 2. Principles of Asset Management in Public and Private Sectors | 186
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| Chapter 8. Information Functions and Modes of Information Development of Controlled Systems | 194
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| Introduction | 194
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| 1. Economic System Management and Basic Functions of Information | 195
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| 2. Types of Information and Information Potential of the System | 202
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| 3. “Information Development” of the Systems and Management | 209
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| Chapter 9. The Economic Theory of Information: Correction of Classical Principles of Consumer Behaviour | 214
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| Introduction | 214
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| 1. Information as an Economic Good | 214
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| 2. Information and Consumer Behaviour | 217
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| 3. Principles of Consumer Behaviour with Regard to Information | 221
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| 4. Economic Choice and Information: Conditions of Unfavourable Selection | 229
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| Chapter 10. Information and Agents: How Behaviour Model Is Formed | 234
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| Introduction | 234
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| 1. Information Influence: Expectations of the Supply and Demand Agents | 235
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| 2. Agents and Information: the Psychology of Choice | 244
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| Chapter 11. Economic Growth and Information | 254
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| 1. Information, Economic Growth and Reform | 254
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| 2. The Government and Information | 265
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| 3. The Principle of Knowledge Transfer | 271
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| 4. Information Asymmetry, Inequality and Economic Growth | 284
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| 5. Technological Function, Inequality, Information Asymmetry and Economic Growth | 299
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| 6. The Dysfunction Model with the Change of Information Potential in the Course of Unfavourable Selection | 312
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| 7. Planning as Management Function | 323
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| Chapter 12. Global Excess Policy and Institutions | 327
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| 1. Institutional Conditions of Globalization | 327
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| 2. Organization of Global Excess Policy | 331
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| 3. Institutional Changes against Global Excess | 333
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| 4. Superficial Adjustments of the International Order | 335
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| 5. Programs of Reshaping the International Order | 336
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| Literature | 341
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Oleg S. Sukharev