pInstitutional economics is often presented by its critics as a tradition in political economy purporting a mechanistic, robot-like, view of the human agent. In this paper this portrayal of institutional economics is rejected and choice is reclaimed for institutionalism. In fact, institutional...

Mainstream views only admit two solutions to social order--separation and coercion. Understanding why association, as a principle of order came to be excluded calls for an incursion into the history of economic ideas. Association was dismissed because it depends on commitment--a human capacity...

This chapter deals with the deepening of financialization in the EU which is intended with the Capital Markets Union (CMU) and its consequences for pension regimes. It departs from a brief overview of financialization and its meaning. It focuses next on deciphering the CMU as an institutional...