The chapter outlines a basic model for new institutionalist political economy as a frame for analyzing the relationship between productivity and justice in market societies. It combines a basic model for understanding market societies, a framework for integrating the role of racialized and...

This paper studies the research interests, paradigmatic orientation and political orientation of about 700 full professors of economics at universities located in German-speaking countries. In doing so, we captured biographical and institutional information on these professorships by collecting...

Abstract. In institutional studies various concepts and terms have been proposed to describe institutional phenomena and their nature. They include behavioral regularity, habituation, collective intentionality, common knowledge, shared beliefs, artifacts, rules of the game, system of signs, and...

Despite being a key term in institutional economics, the term "institution" seems to be used in various different ways. To what extent is this problematic, given that a shared understanding of key terms among scholars is a necessary condition for scientific progress? We review prominent...

The purpose of the current research is to introduce the New Institutional Economics (NIE) with the focus placed on Bulgarian agriculture. On the one hand, this includes the description of institutional impact on the separate actors, operating within agricultural organizations. On the other hand,...

What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...

Dieser Beitrag erläutert (1) die Fragestellung des Hayekschen Gesamtwerks. Ferner skizziert er (2), wie Hayek diese Fragestellung mit seinem Ansatz bearbeitet hat. Sodann werden (3) Stärken und Schwächen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert. Abschließend (4) formuliert dieser Beitrag Lektionen für...

Ronald Coase merged two traditions in economics, marginalism and institutionalism. Neoclassical economics in the 1930s was characterized by an abstract conception of marginalism and frictionless resource movement. Marginal analysis did not seek to uncover the source of individual human...

Dieser Beitrag erläutert (1) die Fragestellung des Hayekschen Gesamtwerks. Ferner skizziert er (2), wie Hayek diese Fragestellung mit seinem Ansatz bearbeitet hat. Sodann werden (3) Stärken und Schwächen dieses Ansatzes diskutiert. Abschließend (4) formuliert dieser Beitrag Lektionen für...