1. Its most notable proponent is, of course, Douglass North (see e.g. North 1981, 1990a).
2. Arun Agrawal, `Community Safeguards for Natural Resources: A Study of Village India', PhD Dissertation,Duke University, Durham, NorthCarolina,1992. Agrawal's dissertation received the award for the best dissertation in the field of political economy from the Political Economy Section of the American Political Science Association.