In the last decade, nearly a dozen countries, once part of the USSR, have undertaken the transition to market economies. In some cases, the new economic systems that have developed cannot be squeezed into any theoretically generalized models of capitalism. The main reason these systems evade...

This paper will address a few critical components of social change and social justice including social responsibility, social change, public policy initiatives, and the role of social entrepreneurs in mobilizing communities through building partnership and coalitions for achieving social change....

The transition to a market economy in Bulgaria is a complex process that requires the privatisation of the economy. But, privatisation is not enough. Transition means a deep institutional change that has to do with the transformation of the behaviour economic agents. This article analyses the...

This essay is the first sustained description, based on archival materials, of the use Zionist settlers in British Mandate-era Palestine made of the English private trust and trust company, and Mandate authorities' reactions to that use. An early, ill-fated attempt to create a family trust of...

Successful governance implies that organizations, networks, or practices create public or club goods by constraining behavior, sharing information, or providing resources. While effective governance may require a functional state, compelling studies have theorized informal governance without...

Conventional wisdom in new institutional economics suggests that property rights become more secure following sovereign commitment. The article tests this axiom in the crucial case of the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. I show that despite the wide-ranging constraints imposed after the...