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A research agenda for work and employment
Procter, Stephen J. (ed.) - 2024
"Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. A Research Agenda for Work and Employment critically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014635740
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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Petermann Reifschneider, Alexandra - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example … garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences … jurisdictions and the impact this probable increase in competition may have on the achievement of the optimal allocation of local …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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Path dependence and lock-in
Liebowitz, Stanley Jason - 2014
Review, 94 (2), June, 251-67 -- James Mahoney (2000), 'Path Dependence in Historical Sociology', Theory and Society, 29 (4 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852185
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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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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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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
policies, and internal resource allocation? Do universities efficiently and effectively pursue the special social functions … 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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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 M. (contributor);  … - 1994
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