• a. Efficiency as a constraint on the economist.
• b. Putting preferences in the back seat ... where they belong.
• c. The Necessity of Institutional detail.
• d. Coase, and the source of institutional explanations
• e. Identification using institutional detail. 

 "Chapter 1" from Allen, D.W. The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).

Allen, D.W. Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ...About Almost Anything. (Vancouver: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2014).