Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World

ISBN-13: 9780367749453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 302 str.

Charles J. Whalen

Opis

Institutional economics is a sociocultural discipline and policy science which draws on the idea that economies are best understood through an appreciation of history, real-world institutions, and socioeconomic interrelations. This book brings together leading institutionalists to examine the tradition’s most essential perspectives and methods.

Spis treści

Introduction. the institutionalist tradition in economics   PART I. PERSPECTIVES   (1) Institutions, technology, and instrumental value: a reassessment of the Veblenian dichotomy   (2) Reasonable value: John R. Commons and the Wisconsin tradition   (3) Market society and the institutional theory of Karl Polanyi   (4) Grappling with an ever-changing economy: the evolution of post-Keynesian institutionalism   (5) Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism   (6) Environmental sustainability in social context: an original institutionalist perspective   PART II. METHODS   (7) Investigational economics: a practitioner’s guide to economics in the tradition of John R. Commons   (8) Institutional impact analysis: the situation, structure, and performance framework   (9) Myth busting: institutional economics and mythopoetics   (10) Storytelling and institutional change: the power and pitfalls of economic narratives   (11) System dynamics, data science, and institutional analysis

O autorze

Charles J. Whalen is Research Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, USA. For over three decades he has contributed to institutional economics, national economic policy discussions, equitable regional development, and worker engagement in business decision-making. This is his fifth book.