Chrysostomos Mantzavinos, C. Mantzavinos

Individuals, Institutions, and Markets

Herausgeber: Calvert, Randall

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9780521773584
• ISBN-10: 052177358X
• Artikelnr.: 23073214

Autorenporträt

C. Mantzavinos teaches Economics at the University of Freiburg and the University of Bayreuth.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I. Individuals: 1. Explaining individual behavior: the problem-solving framework
2. The motivational aspect: the strive for utility increase
3. The cognitive aspect: the theory of learning
4. The choice aspect
Part II. Institutions: 5. Shared mental models: emergence and evolution
6. Explaining institutions
7. Informal institutions
8. Formal institutions
Part III. Markets: 9. Institutions and the market: the aggregate level
10. Institutions and market: the microeconomic level
11. The theory of evolutionary competition
12. An application: institutions, markets, and economic development
Concluding observations: unified social science as political economy?
References
Author index
Subject index.