Alternative Institutional Structures
Evolution and impact
Published on 16. June 2008
448 pages
978-1-135-97491-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the spring on 2006, a workshop was held at Michigan State University to honour the career of A. Allan Schmid and his writings about how institutions evolve and how alternative institutions, including property rights, shape political relationships and impact economic performance. This edited book is the outcome of the workshop. It is a collection
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
9 s/w Abbildungen, 7 s/w Tabellen, 9 s/w Zeichnungen
9 b/w images, 7 tables and 9 line drawings
File size
3,47 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-97491-6 (9781135974916)
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Persons
Sandra S. Batie is the Elton R. Smith Professor in Food and Agricultural Policy, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University and Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association. Nicholas Mercuro is Professor of Law in Residence at the Michigan State University College of Law and member of the faculty of MSU's James Madison College and founder and co-editor of The Economics of Legal Relationships series with Routledge.
Content
1 Power and the troublesome economist: complementarities among recent institutional theorists 2 Some problems in assessing the evolution and impact of institutions 3 Developing a method for analyzing institutional change 4 Does economic development require "certain" property rights? 5 Institutional economics as volitional pragmatism 6 Institutions and rationality 7 Simplicity in institutional design 8 The essence of economics: law, participation and institutional choice (two ways) 9 Is law facilitating or inhibiting transactions? 10 On Institutional Individualism as a middle-way mode of explanation for approaching organizational issues 11 The role of attitudes in action and institutional change: an evolutionary perspective 12 Post-Keynesian institutionalism and the anxious society 13 Toward a theory of induced institutional change: power, labor markets, and institutional change 14 The instituted nature of market information: the case of induced innovation and environmental regulation 15 The role of culture and social norms in theories of institutional change: the case of agricultural cooperatives 16 Payment for environmental services and other institutions for protecting drinking water in eastern Costa Rica 17 A dialogue on institutions: various approaches to assessing the evolution and impact of alternative institutional structures
