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9780230550735

Institutional Economics An Introduction

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  • ISBN13:

    9780230550735

  • ISBN10:

    0230550738

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-02-15
  • Publisher: Red Globe Pr
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Summary

Institutional economics is an increasingly important area in the field which also verges into political science and sociology. This concise and lucid textbook, which assumes a basic understanding of neoclassical economics, introduces the key ideas, emphasizing the "new" institutional economics but grounding readers in the traditional perspectives.

Author Biography

ANNETTE VAN DEN BERG is Lecturer of Institutional Economics at Utrecht University.
ANTOON SPITHOVEN is Lecturer of Institutional Economics at Utrecht University.
JOHN GROENEWEGEN is Professor of Institutional Economics at Rotterdam School of Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also Professor of Economics of Infrastructures at the Technical University Delft.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION * What is Institutional Economics about? * PART TWO: THEORY * Theoretical Framework * Static Approaches to Institutions * The Dynamics of Institutions * PART THREE: PRIVATE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES * Markets * Firms
* Cooperations Between Firms * PART FOUR: PUBLIC GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES *
State Intervention to Protect the Public Interest * Government Failures



 

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