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The New Institutional Economics and Development Theory: A Brief Critical Assessment PRANAB BARDHAN University of California, Berkeley Summary. – In this paper we discuss strengths and weaknesses of transaction-cost and imperfect-information approaches to the economic theory of institutions, particularly with references to problems relevant to economic development. ALTERNATIVE THEORLES In recent years two strands of non –Walrasian economic literature have developed well-articulated endogenous theories of institutions, and they are both getting to be prominent in the new microeconomics of develo