Informal Institutions: How Social Norms Help or Hinder Development

Informal institutions — family and kinship structures, traditions, and social norms — are often decisive factors in shaping policy outcomes and this book advocates a pragmatic way of dealing with them.非正式制度（informal institutions）——即家庭与亲属结构、传统习俗与社会规范——往往是决定政策成效的关键因素，本书倡导一种务实的应对策略以处理此类制度。