Subject(s): organisation theory -- Economics -- Extracts from Leviathan -- First principles of Government -- Institutions, markets and political power -- Place of institution in the economy: a Theoretical perspective -- Transaction cost economics and organization theory -- The role of institutions in the revival of trade: the law merchant, private judges and the champagne fairs -- Institutions and international trade: Commercial revolution -- Implications from the disequilibrium of majority rule for the study of institutions -- Alternative conceptions of the state -- Coase theorem and the theory of the state -- Dictatorship , democracy and development -- Will Free trade with political science put normative economists out of work -- On misunderstanding government: an analysis of the art of policy advice -- Government and agency -- Multi task principles-agent analysis: incentive contracts, asset ownership and job design -- Internet organisation of government -- Power of incentives in private vs public organisations and extracts from The making of economic policy -- The political process, voting and public choice -- Statics and dynamics of party ideologies -- Rationality and social choice -- Economic model of representative democracy -- Distributive politics and economic growth -- Inequality harmful for growth -- Social norms and economic incentives in the welfare state