Alternative Institutional Structures

Author : Sandra Batie,Nicholas Mercuro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135974909

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Alternative Institutional Structures by Sandra Batie,Nicholas Mercuro Pdf

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

Author : John Short,Keith Bassett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000374230

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Housing and Residential Structure by John Short,Keith Bassett Pdf

First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public sector housing in Britain, drawing on illustrative material from North America and France to aid the comparative analysis of institutional structures. Part Three is devoted to an evaluation of the Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure from Marx and Engels to Castells and Harvey.

Author : Neil K. Komesar
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1997-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226450899

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Imperfect Alternatives by Neil K. Komesar Pdf

Major approaches to law and public policy, ranging from law and economics to the fundamental rights approach to constitutional law, are based on the belief that the identification of the correct social goals or values is the key to describing or prescribing law and public policy outcomes. In this book, Neil Komesar argues that this emphasis on goal choice ignores an essential element—institutional choice. Indeed, as important as determining our social goals is deciding which institution is best equipped to implement them—the market, the political process, or the adjucative process. Pointing out that all three institutions are massive, complex, and imperfect, Komesar develops a strategy for comparative institutional analysis that assesses variations in institutional ability. He then powerfully demonstrates the value of this analytical framework by using it to examine important contemporary issues ranging from tort reform to constitution-making.

Author : Nicholas Mercuro,Steven G. Medema
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691125725

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Economics and the Law by Nicholas Mercuro,Steven G. Medema Pdf

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Author : Svetozar Pejovich
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9401164851

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Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems by Svetozar Pejovich Pdf

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems aims to redirect the study of what was previously referred to as comparative economic systems toward analysis of the history and development of institutions, and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic behavior. To this end, the book internalizes into a theoretical framework: (i) the effects of alternative institutions on the costs of transactions and incentive structures; (ii) the effects of the costs of transactions and incentives on economic behavior, and (iii) the evidence for refutable implications of those effects. In the process, it provides the logical premises for various institutions from which refutable implications can be deduced.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Economic forecasting
ISBN : SRLF:AA0000326801

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Public Issue Early Warning Systems : Legislative and Institutional Alternatives by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Pdf

Author : S. Pejovich
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401164832

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Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems by S. Pejovich Pdf

Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems aims to redirect the study of what was previously referred to as comparative economic systems toward analysis of the history and development of institutions, and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic behavior. To this end, the book internalizes into a theoretical framework: (i) the effects of alternative institutions on the costs of transactions and incentive structures; (ii) the effects of the costs of transactions and incentives on economic behavior, and (iii) the evidence for refutable implications of those effects. In the process, it provides the logical premises for various institutions from which refutable implications can be deduced.

Author : Hans-Jürgen Wagener
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642997686

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On the Theory and Policy of Systemic Change by Hans-Jürgen Wagener Pdf

Between 1989 and 1992 three colloquia on transformation problems were held at the Ludwig-Reimers-Stiftung, Bad Homburg. At the end of the 1980s the collapse of the Soviet-type socialist economic system had become clear and, hence, the necessity to transform these systems into an entirely different eco nomic order. Similar processes have happened and still happen in other his torical constellations, for instance in developing countries. It has been the aim of the Transformation Colloquium to gain more theoretical insight into these phenomena. The object of research has been transformation defined as transition from a given economic order (socialist planned economy e.g.) to a consistent new or der (market economy). This is a highly complex phenomenon which occurred, above all, during the 20th century: introduction and abolition of socialist sys tems, transition from war economies to peace-time market economies. Histori cal experience allows perhaps for certain generalizing abstractions. The central problem discussed at all (up to now) three colloquia is the question whether the object is amenable for theoretical analysis and which approaches eventually are promising.

Author : United States. Task Force on Environmental Research
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electric power-plants
ISBN : UOM:39015002029331

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National Power Survey, Environmental Research by United States. Task Force on Environmental Research Pdf

Author : John Cunningham Wood
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 716 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415074878

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Thorstein Veblen by John Cunningham Wood Pdf

138 articles are arranged thematically to give easy access to the intellectual processes of this influencial economist. Volume 1 deals with his life and perspectives, volume 2 with "political economy" and volume 3 on "Specialized topics

Author : Vincent Ostrom,David Feeny,Hartmut Picht
Publisher : ICS Press
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822016868846

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Rethinking Institutional Analysis and Development by Vincent Ostrom,David Feeny,Hartmut Picht Pdf

Author : Eric Thun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139447866

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Changing Lanes in China by Eric Thun Pdf

This book addresses two of the most important trends in political economy during the last two decades - globalization and decentralization - in the context of the world's most rapidly growing economic power, China. The intent is to provide a better understanding of how local political and economic institutions shape the ability of Chinese state-owned firms to utilize foreign direct investment (FDI) to remake themselves in the transition from inefficient and technologically backward firms into powerful national champions. In a global economy, the author argues, local governments are increasingly the agents of industrial transformation at the level of the firm. Local institutions are durable over time, and they have important economic consequences. Through an analysis of five Chinese regions, the treatment seeks to specify the opportunities and constraints that alternative institutional structures create, how they change over time, and ultimately, how they prepare Chinese firms for the challenge of global competition.

Author : Gerardo Marletto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136307034

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Creating a Sustainable Economy by Gerardo Marletto Pdf

This book is designed for those scholars, students, policy-makers – or just curious readers– who are looking for heterodox thinking on the issue of environmental economics and policy. Contributions to this book draw on multiple streams of institutional and evolutionary economics and help build an approach to environmental policy that radically diverges from mainstream prescriptions. No 'silver bullet' solutions emerge from the analyses. Even market-based tools – such as green taxes or tradable pollution permits – are bound to fail if they are not incorporated into an integrated, multi-dimensional and multi-actor policy for structural change.

Author : David N Kay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007-02-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134430468

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Tibetan and Zen Buddhism in Britain by David N Kay Pdf

This book analyses the transplantation, development and adaptation of the two largest Tibetan and Zen Buddhist organizations currently active on the British religious landscape: the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT) and the Order of Buddhist Contemplatives (OBC). The key contributions of recent scholarship are evaluated and organised thematically to provide a framework for analysis, and the history and current landscape of contemporary Tibetan and Zen Buddhist practice in Britain are also mapped out. A number of patterns and processes identified elsewhere are exemplified, although certain assumptions made about the nature of 'British Buddhism' are subjected to critical scrutiny and challenged.

Author : Eugene A. Hammel
Publisher : Englewood Cliffs, N.J : Prentice-Hall
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UOM:39015005553105

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Alternative Social Structures and Ritual Relations in the Balkans by Eugene A. Hammel Pdf