Alternative Institutional Structures : Evolution and impact

ISBN-13: 9780415774789 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 448 str.

Opis

This book is the outcome of a workshop at Michigan State University on the career of A. Allan Schmid offering a collection of original essays that explore several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions.

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CONTENTS, Foreword, Nicholas Mercuro and Sandra S. Batie, Chapter 1 - Power and the Troublesome Economist: Complementarities Among Recent Institutional Theorists, A. Allan Schmid, Chapter 2- Some Problems in Assessing the Evolution and Impact of Institutions, Warren J. Samuels, Chapter 3 - Developing a Method for Analyzing Institutional Change, Elinor Ostrom, Chapter 4 - Does Economic Development Require "Certain" Property Rights?, Peter J. Boettke and J. Robert Subrick, Chapter 5 - Institutional Economics as Volitional Pragmatism, Daniel W. Bromley, Chapter 6 - Institutions and Rationality, Arild Vatn, Chapter 7 - Simplicity in Institutional Design, Nathan Berg, Chapter 8 - The Essence of Economics – Law, Participation and Institutional Choice (Two Ways), Neil Komesar, Chapter 9 - Is Law Facilitating or Inhibiting Transactions?, Claude Ménard, Chapter 10 - On Institutional Individualism as a Middle-way Mode of Explanation for Approaching Organizational Issues, Fernando Toboso, Chapter 11 - The Role of Attitudes in Action and Institutional Change – An Evolutionary Perspective, Uta-Maria Niederle, Chapter 12 - Post-Keynesian Institutionalism and the Anxious Society, Charles J. Whalen, Chapter 13 - Towards a Theory of Induced Institutional Change: Power, Labor Markets, and Institutional Change, Morris Altman, Chapter 14 - The Instituted Nature of Market Information: the Case of Induced Innovation and Environmental Regulation, Patricia E. Norris, David B. Schweikhardt, and Eric A. Scorsone, Chapter 15 - The Role of Culture and Social Norms in Theories of Institutional Change: The Case of Agricultural Cooperatives, Julie A. Hogeland, Chapter 16 - Payment for Environmental Services and Other Institutions for Protecting Drinking Water in Eastern Costa Rica, Michael D. Kaplowitz, Daniel V. Ortega-Pacheco, and Frank Lupi, Chapter 17 - A Dialogue on Institutions: Assessing the Evolution and Impact of Alternative Institutional Structures, edited by Nicholas Mercuro and Sandra S. Batie, Contributors, Index