Economics Social Institutions

Author : Andrew Schotter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521067138

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The Economic Theory of Social Institutions by Andrew Schotter Pdf

This book uses game theory to analyse the creation, evolution and function of economic and social institutions. The author illustrates his analysis by describing the organic or unplanned evolution of institutions such as the conventions of war, the use of money, property rights and oligopolistic pricing conventions. Professor Schotter begins by linking his work with the ideas of the philosophers Rawls, Nozick and Lewis. Institutions are regarded as regularities in the behaviour of social agents, which the agents themselves tacitly create to solve a wide variety of recurrent problems. The repetitive nature of the problems permits them to be described as a recurrent game or 'supergame.' The agents use these regularities as informational devices to supplement the information contained in competitive prices. The final chapter explores the applicability of this theory, first by relating it to previous work on the theory of teams, hierarchies, and non-maximizing decision theory, and then by using it to provide a new approach to a variety of questions both within and outside economics.

Author : Michael Hechter,Karl Dieter Opp,Reinhard Wippler
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2024-07-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 020236898X

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Social Institutions by Michael Hechter,Karl Dieter Opp,Reinhard Wippler Pdf

This is the first book to present a synthesis of rational choice theory and sociological perspectives for the analysis of social institutions. The origin of social institutions is an old concern in social theory. Currently it has re-emerged as one of the most intensely debated issues in social science. Among economists and rational choice theorists, there is growing awareness that most, if not all, of the social outcomes that are of interest to explain are at least partly a function of institutional constraints. Yet the role of institutions is negligible both in general equilibrium theory and in most neoclassical economic models. There is a burgeoning substantive interest in institutions ranging from social movements, to formal organizations, to states, and even international regimes. Rational choice theorists have made great strides in elucidating the effects of institutions on a variety of social outcomes, but they have paid insufficient attention to the social dynamics that lead to the emergence of these institutions. Typically, these institutions have been assumed to be a given, rather than considered as outcomes requiring explanation in their own right. Sociological theorists, in contrast, have long appreciated the role of social structural constraints in the determination of outcomes but have neglected the role of individual agents. Michael Hechter is professor emeritus in the department of Sociology at the University of Washington. He is the author of numerous books. He became an Elected Fellow to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004 and has been featured in Who's Who. He is also currently on editorial boards for a numerous amount of journals. Karl-Dieter Opp is professor of sociology at Univesitat Leipzig. He has been a Fellow of the European Academy of Sociology since 1999 and has been member of the Council and Treasurer since 2000. He is also current on the advisory board for the magazine Mind and Society. Reinhard Wippler is professor of theoretical sociology at the University of Utrecht and scientific director of the Interuniversity Center for Sociological Theory and Methodology.

Author : Jack Knight,Itai Sened
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 047208576X

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Explaining Social Institutions by Jack Knight,Itai Sened Pdf

Important scholars offer new perspectives on the formation and growth of social institutions

Author : John Bryan Davis,Asimina Christoforou
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Institutional economics
ISBN : 1781955247

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The Economics of Social Institutions by John Bryan Davis,Asimina Christoforou Pdf

The volume provides a comprehensive review of the origins and development of the economics of social institutions and addresses the main theoretical and policy concerns that have occupied scholars and researchers.

Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015029171173

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Social Institutions and Economic Performance by Wolfgang Streeck Pdf

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 : Karol Edward Sołtan,Eric M. Uslaner,Virginia Haufler
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472108689

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Institutions and Social Order by Karol Edward Sołtan,Eric M. Uslaner,Virginia Haufler Pdf

Explores the relationship between institutions and the maintenance of social order

Author : K. Brunner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400992573

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Economics Social Institutions by K. Brunner Pdf

The productive work of widely distributed academic research has contributed substantially, over the postwar period, to important advances in our understanding. It has also offered a clearer recognition of many unresolved problems. Never theless, the progress achieved over the last decades, ex hibited by the systematic application of "theory" to actual issues and observable problems, could not overcome a per vasive sense of dissatisfaction. Some academic endeavors pursued within a traditional range of economic analysis have appeared increasingly remote from broad social issues, motivating the social and intellectual unrest experienced in recent years. Conditioned by the traditional use of economic analysis, many have naturally concluded that the "most relevant" social issues agitating our times are beyond the reach of economics. Purist advocates of a traditional view thus condemn any extension of economic analysis to social issues as an escape into "ideology". Others argue the need for an "interdisciplinary approach" involving sociology, social psychology, or anthropology as necessary strands in a useful understanding of social, institutional, and human problems of contemporary societies. We note here, in par ticular, the subtle attraction inherent in Marxian thought. It appears to offer a unified approach, with a coherent inter pretation, to all matters and aspects of human society, in cluding even nature.

Author : Kurt Martin,Edmund Valpy Knox Fitzgerald
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781402008948

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Social Institutions and Economic Development by Kurt Martin,Edmund Valpy Knox Fitzgerald Pdf

This book celebrates the modern relevance of one of the founding fathers of development economics - Kurt Martin. His thought - drawn from the central conflict of the twentieth century between collective action and individual enterprise - has influenced a generation of scholars at one of Europe's foremost development studies faculties, the Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague. In this tribute to Kurt Martin, leading world thinkers, including Richard Nelson, Josi Antonio Ocampo, Frances Stewart, and Ben Ndulu, discuss the role of social institutions in economic development. They are complemented by leading ISS faculty, all contributing to the debate that will define the policy research agenda well into the next decade. This is an essential text for economic scholars, postgraduate students, and development practitioners alike.

Author : Pier Luigi Porta,Roberto Scazzieri,Andrew S. Skinner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 178254237X

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Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour by Pier Luigi Porta,Roberto Scazzieri,Andrew S. Skinner Pdf

'The complex interplay of the formation and communication of knowledge, the structure of social interaction, and the evolution of the division of labour, is here skilfully explored in a broad historical, philosophical and analytical framework by a truly international meeting of minds, enabling an encounter with great thinkers, past and present, commencing with Hume and Smith. A heady and unusual elixir, finely distilled, and to be slowly enjoyed if its sophisticated benefits are to be fully gathered by the reader.' - Peter Groenewegen, University of Sydney, Australia Knowledge, Social Institutions and the Division of Labour gives rise to a new and richer institutional analysis of the economy centred around the analysis of language, the division of labour and social knowledge. It is in this perspective that the economic analysis of institutions comes to be associated with the study of civil society, or with the broad framework of communication and coordination behind the interaction of individuals in economic and non-economic spheres. This fascinating book is divided into three parts beginning with the issue of the development of science as an aspect of the division of labour, starting from methodological problems on the communication of scientific knowledge. The volume goes on to explore issues on the moral bases of social interaction and, more particularly, of commercial society before ending with in depth analyses of questions on the division of labour, social institutions and the diffusion of knowledge in society.

Author : Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Ivan Boldyrev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317907558

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Hegel, Institutions and Economics by Carsten Herrmann-Pillath,Ivan Boldyrev Pdf

Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement that helps us rethink contemporary economics. This book focuses on a concept of institution which is equally important for Hegel's political philosophy and for economic theory to date. The key contributions of this Hegelian perspective on economics lead us to the synthesis of traditional approaches and new ideas gained in economic experiments and advanced by neuroeconomists, sociologists and cognitive scientists. The proper account of contemporary 'civil society' involves comprehending it as a historically evolving totality of individual minds, ideas and intersubjective structures that are mutually dependent, tied by recognitive relations, and assert themselves as a whole in the ongoing performative movement of 'objective spitit'. The ethics of recognition is paired with the ethics of associations that supports moral principles and gives them true, concrete universality. This unusual constellation of seemingly remote fields suggests that Hegel, read in a pragmatist mode, anticipated the new theories and philosophies of extended mind, social cognition and performativity. By providing a new conceptual apparatus and reformulating the theory of institutions in the light of this new synthesis, this book claims to give new meaning both to Hegel as interpreted from today, and to the social sciences. Seen from this perspective, such phenomena as cooperation in games, personal identity or justice in the version of Amartya Sen's 'realization-focused comparisons' are reinscribed into the logic of institutional theory. This 'Hegel' clearly goes beyond the limits of philosophical discussion and becomes a decisive reference for economists, sociologists, political scientists and other scholars who study the foundations and consequences of human sociality and try to explore and design the institutions necessary for a worthy common life.

Author : Howard J Sherman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317468479

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How Society Makes Itself: The Evolution of Political and Economic Institutions by Howard J Sherman Pdf

This radical account of the evolution of political, social, and economic institutions weaves together strands of anthropology, sociology, political science, history, and economics. In a highly readable text, Howard Sherman explains the interconnections of ideas and economic forces, and traces the evolution of social and economic institutions from primitive times to the present. Sherman focuses on the myth of "inevitable progress" in technology, and argues that it progresses only when social and economic institutions and dominant ideas encourage it to improve. He shows that throughout history technology, as a part of the economic forces, ebbs and flows to create or undermine existing economic institutions.

Author : Valpy FitzGerald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 940173948X

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Social Institutions and Economic Development by Valpy FitzGerald Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Banks,Eric Alan Hanushek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521478103

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Modern Political Economy by Jeffrey S. Banks,Eric Alan Hanushek Pdf

Political economy has been an essential realm of inquiry and has attracted myriad intellectual adherents for much of the period of modern scholarship. The discipline's formal split into the distinct studies of political science and economics in the nineteenth-century, while advantageous for certain scientific developments, has biased the way economists and political scientists think about many issues, and has placed artificial constraints on the study of many important social issues. This volume calls for a reaffirmation of the importance of the unified study of political economy, and explores the frontiers of the interaction between politics and markets. This volume brings together intellectual leaders of various areas, drawing upon state-of-the-art theoretical and empirical analysis from each of the underlying disciplines. Each chapter, while beginning with a survey of existing work, focuses on profitable lines of inquiry for future developments. Particular attention is devoted to fields of active current development.

Author : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136600456

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Institutions, Social Norms and Economic Development by Jean-Philippe Platteau Pdf

In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex abrubto, but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop is not only suitable practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral environment without which generalized trust is difficult to establish. The cultural endowment of societies as they have developed over their particular histories is bound to play a major role in this regard, and the matter of cultual endowment is one of the central themes of this book. On the other hand, division of labour does not only require well-enforced property rights and trust in economic dealings. It is also critically conditioned by the thickness of economic space, itself dependent on population density. This provides the second major theme of the volume: market development, including the development of private property rights is not possible, or will remain very incomplete, if populations are thinly spread over large areas of land. The book makes special reference to sub-Saharan Africa.

Author : Karl William Kapp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780415586559

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The Foundations of Institutional Economics by Karl William Kapp Pdf

K. William Kapp was one of the leading 20 th century institutionalists and a founding member of the Association for Evolutionary Economics. This book was developed by Kapp and is his attempt to present the foundations of institutional economics though has remained unfinished and unpublished during the last 30 years since his death. Carefully edited with additional material from some of Kapp' s other major works and with a full introduction from Sebasitan Berger and Rolf Steppacher, this book represents a major reappraisal of Kapp' s contribution ...