Institutional economics /
This introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early 20th century until the present day. It concentrates on influential authors in the main schools of institutional economics. Institutional economics is defined as economic thought that considers institutions...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Routledge,
2009
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| Series: | Routledge frontiers of political economy ;
114 |
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| Online Access: | http://ipaa.ir/files/site1/pages/0415449111%20-%20Institutional%20Economics.pdf |
Table of Contents:
- I. Introduction: the institutionalist families in economics, II. Original institutionalism, 1. Schmoller and the German historical school, 2. Veblen's 'evolutionary institutionalism', 3. Hamilton: institutional economics, 4. Commons: organisations and institutions, 5. Polanyi and the economy as an instituted process, III. The Austrian school and 'ordoliberalism', 1. Menger: the organic and pragmatic approaches, 2. Hayek's 'Orders' and 'Rules', 3. Eucken and 'ordoliberalism', IV. The new institutional economics, 1. Williamson and the mechanisms of governance, 2. North: formal and informal institutions, 3. Game theory and comparative institutional analysis, V. Contemporary European currents of thought, 1. Regulation theory: historical macroeconomics, 2. The economics of conventions: interpreting the rules, 3. Hodgson and the revival of the 'old institutional economics', VI. Unity and diversity of institutionalisms