Institutional and Organizational Analysis

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-107-45125-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

Reihe: New Approaches to Economic and Social History

What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the primary causes of sustainable development. Institutions are rules that recognized authorities create and enforce. Norms are rules created by long-standing patterns of behavior, shared by people in a society or organization. They combine to play a role in all organizations, including governments, firms, churches, universities, gangs, and even families. This introduction to the concepts and applications of institutional and organizational analysis uses economic history, economics, law, and political science to inform its theoretical framework. Institutional and organizational analysis becomes the basis to show why the economic and political performance of countries worldwide have not converged, and reveals the lessons to be learned from it for business, law, and public policy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alston, Eric

Alston, Lee J.

Mueller, Bernardo

Nonnenmacher, Tomas

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Entwicklungspolitik, Nord-Süd Beziehungen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction; Part I. From Institutions to Economic Outcomes: 1. Institutions and property rights; 2. Property rights and transaction costs; 3. Organizations and contracts; Part II. From Economic Outcomes to Political Performance: 4. Special interests and citizens; 5. The legislature and executive; 6. Bureaucracies; 7. The judicial system; Part III. The Dynamics of Economic and Political Development: 8. Developmental trajectories: institutional deepening and critical transitions; 9. Case studies of critical transitions: Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, and the United States; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Alston, Lee J.
Lee J. Alston is the Ostrom Chair, Professor of Economics and Law, and Director of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University. He is a Research Associate at the NBER. Alston is Past-President of the International Society for New Institutional Economics, and the Economic History Association.

Nonnenmacher, Tomas
Tomas Nonnenmacher is the Patricia Bush Tippie Chair of Economics and the Co-director of the Center for Business and Economics at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania. He is an affiliated faculty member at the Ostrom Workshop.

Alston, Eric
Eric Alston is a Scholar in Residence in the Finance Division and the Faculty Director of the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program in the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder. He also serves as a Research Associate with the Comparative Constitutions Project.

Mueller, Bernardo
Bernardo Mueller is a lecturer at the Department of Economics at the University of Brasília. He is the co-author of Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change (2016), along with Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo, and Carlos Pereira.