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Author : Daniel W. Bromley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:833689370
Author : Thomas Oatley
Publisher : Pearson Longman
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111895673
This text uses theories developed from core assumptions to explain and interpret the creation and evolution of the postwar international economic system. Oatley provides undergraduates with the necessary background in history and economic theory and introduces students to the core elements of contemporary positive international political economy.
Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521397340
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.
Author : Henry Farrell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139481076
Trust and cooperation are at the heart of the two most important approaches to comparative politics - rational choice and political culture. Yet we know little about trust's relationship to political institutions. This book sets out a rationalist theory of how institutions - and in particular informal institutions - can affect trust without reducing it to fully determine expectations. It then shows how this theory can be applied to comparative political economy, and in particular to explaining inter-firm cooperation in industrial districts, geographical areas of intense small firm collaboration. The book compares trust and cooperation in two prominent districts in the literature, one in Emilia Romagna, Italy, and the other in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It also sets out and applies a theory of how national informal institutions may change as a result of changes in global markets, and shows how similar mechanisms may explain persistent distrust too among Sicilian Mafiosi.
Author : Fiona McGillivray
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1843767325
'In International Trade and Political Institutions, four leading young scholars of comparative and international political economy come together to analyse aspects of trade policy from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries. Combining theoretical sophistication with empirical depth, they provide cogent arguments about the interaction of interests, institutions, and ideas in a period of crucial importance to those who would like to understand the sources and implications of global economic integration. This exciting volume will be of great interest for scholars concerned with international trade, political economy, and the history of the nineteenth-century world economy.' - Jeffry A. Frieden, Harvard University, US 'This fascinating volume should be read by political scientists, economists, and historians interested in the political formation of trade policy. The papers consider a rich set of historical examples and never fail to be provocative and interesting.' - Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College, US It is a widely held view that politics plays an important role in determining international trade policy. Defining precisely why, and how, politics matters is more difficult. Despite the benefits of trade, few nations have wholeheartedly adopted free trade policies, and when they do so it is by managing trade through international institutions and multi- or bilateral trade treaties. International Trade and Political Institutions broadens the public choice theory of trade politics to allow for the study of ideas and institutions within a longer time horizon. The authors use theoretically rigorous historical analysis of international political economy and four important case studies to help untangle the role of ideology, institutions and interests. This illuminating book connects the fields of economics, political economy and history to shed new light on trade theory.
Author : Mark Blyth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521010527
This book picks up where Karl Polanyi's study of economic and political change left off. Building upon Polanyi's conception of the double movement, Blyth analyzes the two periods of deep seated institutional change that characterized the twentieth century: the 1930s and the 1970s. Blyth views both sets of changes as part of the same dynamic. In the 1930s labor reacted against the exigencies of the market and demanded state action to mitigate the market's effects by 'embedding liberalism.' In the 1970s, those who benefited least from such 'embedding' institutions, namely business, reacted against these constraints and sought to overturn that institutional order. Blyth demonstrates the critical role economic ideas played in making institutional change possible. Great Transformations rethinks the relationship between uncertainty, ideas, and interests, achieving profound new insights on how, and under what conditions, institutional change takes place.
Author : Emiel F. M. Wubben
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 1849808902
"In association with the Belgian-Dutch Association for Institutional and Political Economy."
Author : Emiel F. M. Wubben
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1781000956
"In association with the Belgian-Dutch Association for Institutional and Political Economy."
Author : Nezameddin Faghih,Ali Hussein Samadi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030609788
The study of dynamics of institutional change in emerging markets are subjects of great interest in contemporary political economy. The dynamics and quality of institutional change can have significant impacts on the long-run performance of economies, economic growth and development of nations, and play a fundamental role in societies. It provides a comprehensive understanding of legal-economic institutions, and sheds light on the way to global peace by producing a better understanding of the dynamics of historical change. Topics range from institutional uncertainty, hybrid market order and labor market institutions, to good governance of institutions and WTO rules as trade institutions, as well as entrepreneurship and institutional change in emerging markets, and the role of modern technologies. This edited volume emphasizes legal-economic institutions, and the role of management and entrepreneurship on dynamics, trends, and implications of institutional change in emerging markets. Presenting research articles by eminent scholars and experts engaged in education and research, who address and discuss the most recent issues in the field, they reveal new insights into the dynamics of institutional change for researchers interested in development of new theories and comparative studies, especially in the era of emerging markets. The book is appealing to a wide range of global audience, can serve as a useful reference work in education and research, offers innovative and productive discussions, and can satisfy scholarly and intellectual interests, regarding institutional development and a broad spectrum of its interactions with functioning of markets and economies.
Author : Elhanan Helpman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674038576
Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity? The answer, the book argues, lies to a large extent in institutional differences across societies. Such institutions are wide-ranging and include formal constitutional arrangements, the role of economic and political elites, informal institutions that promote investment and knowledge transfer, and others. Two core themes run through the contributors’ essays. First, what constraints do institutions place on the power of the executive to prevent it from extorting the investments and effort of other people and institutions? Second, when are productive institutions self-enforcing? Institutions and Economic Performance is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
Author : Mwangi S. Kimenyi,John Mukum Mbaku
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429806315
First published in 1999, this volume is written by seasoned public choice scholars and is intended to make a significant contribution to the debate on peaceful coexistence and sustainable development in developing countries. The book contains a rich mixture of analytical ideas and views on collective choice and macroeconomic performance in developing countries. This book breaks new ground in that it is the first comprehensive application of the theory of public choice to collective decision making in developing societies. It provides both students of Third World studies and policy makers in developing societies an in-depth analysis for institutions for collective choice. For countries undergoing major reform of their political and economic institutions, public choice theory can provide significant and useful insights, and help these societies design and adopt institutional arrangements that enhance peaceful coexistence of groups, the creation of wealth and sustainable development. Specifically, the book successfully shows that: (1) the application of economic theory to the study of public policy in the developing countries can provide important insights into collective decision-making; (2) the application of public choice theory to the study of developing societies can significantly improve the efficiency of bureaucratic and governmental systems, and consequently, promote economic, political and social development; and (3) public choice can help developing societies design and sustain effective laws and institutions for peaceful coexistence of groups and achieve sustainable development.
Author : Wolfgang Kasper,Manfred E. Streit
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024323359
A dense textbook for students and others with a basic understanding of economics. Introduces the idea of institutions as rules that constrain possibly opportunistic human behavior, protect individual spheres of freedom, help avoid or mitigate conflicts, and enhance the division of labor and knowledge, thereby promoting prosperity, which Wolfgang and Streit value over comfort. Under foundations they discuss human behavior, fundamental human values, and individual rules. Their applications include the institutional foundations of capitalism, the dynamics of competition, economic organizations, public policy as collective action, the international dimension, the evolution of institutions, alternative economic systems, and reforming the mixed economies. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Timothy Besley,Torsten Persson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400840526
How nations can promote peace, prosperity, and stability through cohesive political institutions "Little else is required to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice; all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things." So wrote Adam Smith a quarter of a millennium ago. Using the tools of modern political economics and combining economic theory with a bird's-eye view of the data, this book reinterprets Smith's pillars of prosperity to explain the existence of development clusters—places that tend to combine effective state institutions, the absence of political violence, and high per-capita incomes. To achieve peace, the authors stress the avoidance of repressive government and civil conflict. Easy taxes, they argue, refers not to low taxes, but a tax system with widespread compliance that collects taxes at a reasonable cost from a broad base, like income. And a tolerable administration of justice is about legal infrastructure that can support the enforcement of contracts and property rights in line with the rule of law. The authors show that countries tend to enjoy all three pillars of prosperity when they have evolved cohesive political institutions that promote common interests, guaranteeing the provision of public goods. In line with much historical research, international conflict has also been an important force behind effective states by fostering common interests. The absence of common interests and/or cohesive political institutions can explain the existence of very different development clusters in fragile states that are plagued by poverty, violence, and weak state capacity.
Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029171173
Proceeding from the insight that markets and rational economic action perform best if embedded in culturally and politically generated opportunities and constraints, Streeck offers a rationale for positive political intervention in post-socialist capitalist market economies.
Author : Richard Swedberg
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780335228003
One of the central questions in social science is ‘Why do people behave as they do?’ A common social scientific answer is, ‘because of their interests’. Despite the importance of the concept of interest for the social sciences, it has been surprisingly little discussed, and many aspects of its general history and many uses are largely unknown. In this book, Richard Swedberg attempts to remedy this situation through an easily accessible introduction to the topic, starting with a history of the concept that covers the origin of the word and its early use in philosophy, political science, literature and everyday language. He then pioneers an analysis of the emergence of interest as a sociological concept during the 19th century. Arguing that economists have reduced the concept of interest to that of economic interest, he emphasizes that sociologists, in contrast, have attempted to develop a flexible and social concept of interest. Moving on to a discussion of the contemporary use of the concept of interest in economics, sociology and political science, the book concludes with a discussion of the potential of the concept of interest as a policy tool.
