Author: C. Mantzavinos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: institutions, decisions, economy, markets, individuals, political
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2004-05-10
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521548330
ISBN-13: 9780521548335

Individuals, Institutions, and Markets offers a theory of how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions work. The book shows that both social institutions, defined as the rules of the game, and exchange processes can be analyzed along a common theoretical structure. Mantzavinos’ proposal is that a problem solving model of individual behavior inspired by the cognitive sciences provides such a unifying theoretical structure. Integrating the latest scholarship in economics, sociology, political science, law, and anthropology, Mantzavinos offers a

Author: Jack Knight
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: institutions, decisions, economy, conflict, social, political
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1992-10-30
List price: $34.99
ISBN-10: 0521421896
ISBN-13: 9780521421898

Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions originally develop? And when and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory,

Author: Mark Beeso
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: institutions, global, apec, pacific, asia, asean
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-10-02
List price: $155.00
ISBN-10: 0415465036
ISBN-13: 9780415465038

The Asia-Pacific is arguably the most important, but also the most complex and contested, region on the planet. Containing three of the world’s largest economies and some of its most important strategic relationships, the region’s capacity of regional elites to promote continuing economic development whilst simultaneously maintaining peace and stability will be one of the defining challenges of the twenty-first century international order. Intuitively, we might expect regional institutions to play a major role in achieving this. Yet one of the most widely noted characteristics of the Asia

Author: Mark Beeson
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: institutions, global, apec, pacific, asia, asean
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2008-10-02
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0415465044
ISBN-13: 9780415465045

Author: Daniel N. Posner
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: institutions, economy, decisions, political, africa, ethnic, politics
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-06-13
List price: $84.00
ISBN-10: 0521833981
ISBN-13: 9780521833981

Presenting a theory to explain how politics revolves around one axis of social cleavage instead of another, Daniel Posner examines Zambia, where people identify themselves either as members of one of the country’s seventy-three tribes or as members of one of its four principal language groups. Drawing on a simple model of identity choice, Posner demonstrates that the answer depends on whether the country is operating under single-party or multi-party rule, thus revealing how formal institutional rules determine the social cleavages that matter.

Author: Douglass C. North
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: institutions, economy, decisions, political, economic, institutional, change, performance
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 1990-10-26
List price: $20.99
ISBN-10: 0521397340
ISBN-13: 9780521397346

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to structure that interaction. Yet, institutions vary widely in their consequences for economic performance; some economies develop institutions that produce growth and development, while others develop institutions that prod

Author: Elinor Ostrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: institutions, political, economy, decisions, action, collective, commons, evolution, governing
Number of Pages: 298
Published: 1990-11-30
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 0521405998
ISBN-13: 9780521405997