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Institutional Bottlenecks : What Can Be Done?

Coyne, Christopher J. - 2013

Institutional bottlenecks refer to path-dependent institutional arrangements which contribute to economic stagnation. In his research, Timur Kuran identifies several historical institutional bottlenecks which contributed to economic decline and underdevelopment of the Middle East. We use Kuran's...

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An Institutional Theory of Free Speech

Berg, Chris - 2017

The paper provides a theory of freedom of speech based on the new institutional political economy. Through politics … theories of free speech: Mill's marketplace of ideas theory, Meiklejohn's democracy theory, and Baker's liberty theory. The … paper then shows how the institutional theory can be meaningfully applied to two common questions in freedom of speech …

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Structural Policy and Public Finance Under Institutional Uncertainty

Gasanov, Sergii - 2018

Theoretical and practical problems of structural policy are considered under institutional uncertainty, financial constraints and fiscal consolidation programs. The necessity for development and implementation of a new concept of structural policy is justified in view of the actual state of the...

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Hume and Institutional Theory

Mellizo, Carlos - 2006

This paper shows the links between Hume's philosophy of customs, and the basic principles of institutional theory. This …

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Framing the State of Nature Through Institutionalist Lenses

Aligica, Paul Dragos - 2017

The Ostroms' research program has a dimension that goes beyond the strict boundaries of political science and economics, crossing into the domain of political philosophy. Bloomington scholars created a framework for analyzing how institutions work and develop that helped them specify and examine...

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The Diversity and Rapprochement of Theories of Institutional Change : Original Institutionalism and New Institutional Economics

Caballero, Gonzalo - 2016

Thorstein Veblen, we focus on the contributions of the instrumental value theory and other original institutional traditions in …

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What Is Old Should Be New Again : Methodological Individualism, Institutional Analysis and Spontaneous Order

Boettke, Peter J. - 2016

In this paper we revisit the case for methodological individualism for the positive analysis of political economy. We argue that the basis of methodological individualism implies neither a necessary commitment to atomistic reductionism in explaining social phenomena nor philosophical...

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Rationality Intertwined : Classical vs Institutional View

Lima Filho, Roberto - 2014

is, neoclassical theory, making use of some relevant authors' works in philosophy (i.e., Alfred Meele, Robert Audi) as …

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Institutional Change in the Context of Social Values and Interest Groups

Volchik, Vyacheslav - 2014

This paper is an attempt to analyze institutional change in the economy synthesizing the original and new methodologies of institutional economics. The concepts of social values, interest groups, and social capital are applied in this context in order to create a theoretical framework based on a...

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Efficiency of Institutions NEW2 - From the Perspective of New Institutional Economics with Emphasis on Knighting Uncertainty

Richter, Rudolf - 2018

The efficiency of institutions, understood in the neoclassical sense, i.e., as the result of constraint optimization of a neoclassical economy is pointless from the perspective of the New Institutional Economics, because the latter assumes incomplete foresight. For such a world one cannot use...

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