"This theme paper focuses on political institutions and their effects on social choice. Institutions are argued to play … molding and channeling preferences, institutions prescribe and constrain the set of choosing agents, the manner in which their … equilibrium outcomes in order to assess the importance of institutions for final outcomes. In so doing, we will have some …

claims, contracting, and governance that determine vertical integration. He treats these institutions as common pool …

designed to create the incentive systems of alternative market and nonmarket economic institutions, allowing the researcher to … examine propositions related to static equilibrium theory, dynamic learning models, and individual choice theory. Economic …

"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …