1. Introduction: Development and Significance of NIE / John Harriss, Janet Hunter and Colin M. Lewis -- 2. The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development / Douglass C. North -- 3. Social Dilemmas and Rational Individuals: An Assessment of the New Institutionalism / Robert H. Bates -- 4. The New Institutional Economics and Its Implications for Development Theory / John Toye -- 5. State Failure in Weak States: A Critique of New Institutionalist Explanations / Mushtaq Khan -- 6. Maps and Landscapes of Grain Markets in South Asia / Barbara Harriss-White -- 7. Institutional Theories and Structural Adjustment in Africa / Howard Stein -- 8. The Role of the State: The Case of Egypt / Heba Handoussa -- 9. Cocoa Plantations in the Third World, 1870s-1914: The Political Economy of Inefficiency / W. G. Clarence-smith -- 10. Productivity and Power: Institutional Structures and Agricultural Performance in India and China, 1900-50 / B. R. Tomlinson.

11. State Intervention in the Brazilian Coffee Trade During the 1920s: A Case Study for New Institutional Economics? / Robert G. Greenhill -- 12. Institutional Theory and Social Change in Uganda / E. A. Brett -- 13. The World Bank and the Analysis of the International Debt Crisis / Beatriz Armendariz de Aghion and Francisco Ferreira -- 14. The Politics of Money in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Argentina / Jeremy Adelman -- 15. Political Factors Shaping the Role of Foreign Finance: The Case of Greece, 1832-1932 / Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou -- 16. Regulatory Regimes, Capital Markets And Industrial Development: A Comparative Study of Brazil, Mexico and the United States of America, 1840-1930 / Stephen Haber -- 17. The State and the Economy in Indonesia in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries / Anne Booth -- 18. Explaining the Economic and Political Successes of Rawlings: The Strengths and Limitations of Public Choice Theories / E. Gyimah-Boadi.