I discuss Aoki's fundamental model of institutions in its most recent version, building on a comment that Aoki contributed to a paper by Hindriks and Guala in 2015. These authors advance a ‘rules in equilibrium' approach to institutions that claims to reduce a Searlian social ontology of...

Recently, equilibrium analysis has gained considerable ground against institutional economics in the field of explaining international trade policy. This paper argues against this trend, picking up the strand of thought originating in seminal contributions such as the Yarbroughs (1992), and...

Adopting a critical stance towards North's recent theory of institutional change and economic performance, the paper proposes a concept of global efficiency which encompasses not only standard allocative efficiency, but also the efficiency of political institutions in competition among groups. A...