Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development : The Bloomington School

ISBN-13: 9780415778206 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 176 str.

Paul Dragos Aligica; Peter J. Boettke

Opis

This volume presents a systematic analysis of the Bloomington Institutional and Development (IAD) Research Program that developed a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical approaches for the study of social sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part 1: From Metropolitan Reform to a Theory of Governance Systems: The Origins and Main Themes of the Bloomington Research Program  1. Political Economy, Polycentricity and the Metropolitan Reform Debate  2. Crossing the Great Divide: The Nature of Public Economies  Part 2: The "Human Condition" and the Foundations of Social Order: Elements of a Social Philosophy of Institutionalism  3. Knowledge and Institutions: Developing a Social Philosophy of Institutional Order and Change  4. Ideas, Language and Meaning: Ontological and Epistemological Foundations of Institutional Order and Institutional Analysis  Part 3: The Bloomington School in its Intellectual Context: A Family of Themes and Schools of Thought  5. Competing Disciplines, Methodological Divides and Emerging Research Agendas: The Bloomington School in its Interdisciplinary Setting  6. Public Policy Analysis, Public Choice and the Old "New Science of Politics"  Conclusions: A Science of Association, a Science of Citizenship, a Science of Liberty.  Postscript: Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development. Dialogues with Vincent and Elinor Ostrom

O autorze

Paul Dragos Aligica is a Senior Fellow at the Mercatus Center and a Faculty Fellow at the James Buchanan Center at George Mason University, USA.

Peter J. Boetkke is the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism at the Mercatus Center, and a University Professor of Economics at George Mason University, USA.