Institutional Economics
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Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Financial Development
Ding Chen
This important new book attempts to establish a fresh conceptual framework for the study of corporate governance by employing the new institutional economics of contract enforcement. This framework helps to clarify two critical issues in...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Financial Instability and Economic Security after the Great Recession
Edited by Charles J. Whalen
This timely book rethinks economic theory and policy by addressing the problem of economic instability and the need to secure broadly shared prosperity. It stresses that advancing economics in the wake of the Great Recession requires an ...eBook:Find out more$41.56
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Improving Irrigation in Asia
Elinor Ostrom, Wai Fung Lam, Prachanda Pradhan, Ganesh P. Shivakoti
Improving Irrigation in Asia is based on a longitudinal study over two decades on innovative intervention for sustained performance of irrigation systems. The work identifies key factors that can help explain the performance of intervent...eBook:Find out more$35.16
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Managing Transaction Costs in the Era of Globalization
Frank A.G. den Butter
Frank A.G. den Butter explains the importance and means of keeping transaction costs as low as possible. He illustrates how this transaction management can contribute to making firms and nations more competitive by exploiting gains from ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Exchange and Development
Peter A. Cornelisse, Erik Thorbecke
This innovative and important book develops a new framework for analysing exchange that takes place within and outside markets over the course of development.eBook:Find out more$42.36
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What Makes Poor Countries Poor?
Michael J. Trebilcock, Mariana Mota Prado
This important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.eBook:Find out more$43.16
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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Graham Room
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytica...eBook:Find out more$52.76
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The Marketing Firm
Kevin J. Vella, Gordon Foxall
This book provides an expert analysis of the theory of the marketing firm by drawing upon operant psychology, economic theory and marketing to argue that all firms exist in order to market. The authors explore the nature of bilateral int...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Does Economic Governance Matter?
Edited by Mehmet Ugur, David Sunderland
This book contributes to the growing governance literature in three ways. First, it extends the analysis to new areas such as power asymmetry, regulation, transnational company strategies, and law enforcement. Secondly, it examines the r...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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The Nature of the New Firm
Edited by Killian J. McCarthy, Maya Fiolet, Wilfred Dolfsma
Globalization has created new ways of doing business, new institutions to oversee them, and has introduced a spectrum of new protagonists to the international arena. Scholars and practitioners have been challenged by the evolving environ...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Institutional Variety in East Asia
Edited by Werner Pascha, Cornelia Storz, Markus Taube
This illuminating book broadly addresses the emerging field of ‘diversity of capitalism’ from a comparative institutional approach. It explores the varied patterns for achieving coordination in different economic systems, applying them s...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Good Governance in the 21st Century
Edited by Joachim Ahrens, Rolf Caspers, Janina Weingarth
This book explores the interdependences of economic globalisation, political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing opportunities for governance reform at both national and international levels. It considers how governance ...