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Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences
Wilfred Dolfsma
The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other soc...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Globalization and Institutions
Edited by Marie-Laure Djelic, Sigrid Quack
This volume investigates the relationship between economic globalization and institutions, or global governance, challenging the common assumption that globalization and institutionalization are essentially processes which exclude each o... -
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The Record of Global Economic Development
Eric Jones
The Record of Global Economic Development analyses the long-term and current economic forces which promote or impede globalisation, drawing on the experience of economic history to help interpret major trends in modern economies.eBook:Find out more$55.16
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Institutional Change for Sustainable Development
Robin Connor, Stephen Dovers
Institutional Change for Sustainable Development presents a flexible, accessible, yet robust conceptual framework for comprehending institutional dimensions of sustainability, emphasising the complexity of institutional systems, and high...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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Economic Institutions and Complexity
Karl-Ernst Schenk
This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author’s evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the ... -
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On Creating Competition and Strategic Restructuring
Edited by Emiel F.M. Wubben, William Hulsink
This book examines the ongoing transformation of public utilities, also known as network-based industries, in Western Europe and the United States. Examples are telecommunications, energy, and water distribution. Most of these network-ba... -
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Globalization, Social Capital and Inequality
Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Charlie Dannreuther
This volume investigates the relationship between globalization, inequality and social capital, and reveals that although strongly related, these ideas are also highly contested. The authors elucidate the interactions between these conce... -
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National Competitiveness and Economic Growth
Timo J. Hämäläinen
The current paradigm shift in the world economy is challenging the traditional competitiveness and growth theories with their few explanatory variables. This book offers a more holistic framework to synthesise the key findings of the var... -
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Incentives to Improve Education
Robert McMeekin
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of ex... -
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Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau, Emmanuel Lazega
This book contributes to the current rapprochement between economics and sociology. It examines the fact that individuals use rules and interdependencies to forward their own interests, while living in social environments where everyone ... -
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Governance and Economic Development
Joachim Ahrens
The main theme of this study is the political economy of policy reform in less developed countries and post-socialist countries. Given the complexity of economic development and transition, Joachim Ahrens views failures in policy reform,...eBook:Find out more$40.00
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A Modern Reader in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson
In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This timely reader gathers together seminal contributions from leading international auth...eBook:Find out more$37.56