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Market failure or success : the new debate
Crampton, Eric (contributor); Cowen, Tyler (contributor) - 2002
Recent years have seen the development of new theories of market failure based on asymmetric information and network effects. According to the new paradigm, we can expect substantial failure in the markets for labor, credit, insurance, software, new technologies and even used cars, to give but a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850972
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Elgar companion to institutional and evolutionary economics
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (contributor);  … - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851701
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Institutions, contracts and organizations : perspectives from new institutional economics
Ménard, Claude (contributor) - 2000
This outstanding book presents new original contributions from some of the world's leading economists including Ronald Coase, Douglass C. North, Masahiko Aoki, Oliver E. Williamson and Harold Demsetz. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research programme...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852023
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Institutionalist theory and applications
Fayazmanesh, Sasan (ed.); Tool, Marc R. (ed.) - 1998
and an ardent defender of academic freedom and of democratic practices. Institutionalist Theory and Applications is the … interdependence of theory and policy and applies institutional theory to several problem areas of governance and performance. This … economics, political economy, history of economic theory, methodology, social economics, social policy and social value theory …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473986
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Institutions and the role of the state
Burlamaqui, Leonardo (ed.); Castro, A. C. (ed.);  … - 2000
The rise of the institutionalist and evolutionary approaches in economics has posed a serious intellectual challenge to the dominant neo-classical paradigm. This book draws together leading scholars in the fields of institutional and evolutionary economics who apply cutting-edge research to one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473878
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Beyond market and hierarchy : interactive governance and social complexity
Amin, Ash (ed.); Hausner, Jerzy (ed.) - 1997
This ambitious book presents a conceptual framework for an institutional approach to economic change and economic transformation. It sheds important light on two basic concepts: social complexity and interactive governance. The first part of the book develops the theoretical foundations for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473919
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Economic institutions and complexity : structures, interactions, and emergent properties
Schenk, Karl-Ernst - 2003
This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474159
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The economic institutions of higher education : economic theories of university behavior
Raines, J. Patrick; Leathers, Charles G. - 2003
assigned to them? Patrick Raines and Charles Leathers present an integrated, coherent theory to explain the behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474161
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Markets, planning and democracy : essays after the collapse of communism
Prychitko, David L. - 2002
The essays contained herein span over a decade and reflect David Prychitko's thinking about the role of the market system, and its relation to planning and democratic processes. The collection consists of previously published and unpublished articles written not only for economists but also for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420104
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Agricultural policy reform and the WTO : where are we heading?
Anania, Giovanni (ed.); Bohman, Mary E. (ed.);  … - 2004
Agricultural Policy Reform and the WTO provides insights into the effects of the Uruguay Round WTO agreement on agricultural policy and global markets, and considers what is at stake in the Doha Development Agenda Round. The contributors to the book deal with a broad range of topics, including...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474033