Bernard Chavance

Institutional Economics (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is an introduction to institutional economics, following the history of different trends in this field since the early 20th century until the present day. It relates the history of economic theories that make up the enlarged family of institutional economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 112
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134059881
• Artikelnr.: 38247700

Autorenporträt

Bernard Chavance is Professor of Economics at the University Paris Diderot, France. He has published several books on comparative economic systems and institutions, particularly on socialist systems and post-socialist transformation. His book Economic reforms in the East: From the 1950s to the 1990s (1992, Nathan) has been translated into English (US), Russian, Japanese and Chinese.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Introduction: the institutionalist families in economics
II. Original institutionalism
1.Schmoller and the German historical school
2. Veblen's 'evolutionary institutionalism'
3. Hamilton: institutional economics
4. Commons: organisations and institutions
5. Polanyi and the economy as an instituted process
III. The Austrian school and 'ordoliberalism'
1. Menger: the organic and pragmatic approaches
2. Hayek's 'Orders' and 'Rules'
3. Eucken and 'ordoliberalism'
IV. The new institutional economics
1. Williamson and the mechanisms of governance
2. North: formal and informal institutions
3. Game theory and comparative institutional analysis
V. Contemporary European currents of thought
1.Regulation theory: historical macroeconomics
2. The economics of conventions: interpreting the rules
3. Hodgson and the revival of the 'old institutional economics'
VI. Unity and diversity of institutionalisms