Using an analysis which draws on economics, law, moral philosophy, sociology and political science, Vanberg demonstrates how the rules and institutions which are the basis of cooperation in society can be systematically explained.
List of figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Economics as social theory, Part I The reason of rules, Part II Rationality and morality, Part III The evolution of rules, Part IV Rules in markets and organizations, Part V Constitutional choice, Part VI Legitimacy in constitutional order, Notes, Bibliography, Index
