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General Principles of Institution Design

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Mankind has a long history of thousands and thousands of years. In fact, the history of mankind is the history of human behaviors. Labor, learning, research, building, war, etc.: all these activities are human behavior in progress.

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    This story was excerpted from Wang (2004). Changes have been made for the purposes of this volume.

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  • Wang X (2004) Lessons from the story of gruel distribution. J Hangzhou Financ Training Inst 1:54

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Sun, S. (2016). General Principles of Institution Design. In: Five Basic Institution Structures and Institutional Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0344-8_1

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