This introduction to institutional economics, follows the history of the field since the early
20th century until the present day. It concentrates on influential authors in the main schools …

This publication presents one of the first attempts to integrate two emerging bodies of
economic research: institutional economics and organizational theory. It begins within the …

After articulating the institutionalist paradigm and its principal facets, the article examines the
present status, converging interests and possible future of institutional economics. Emphasis …

The discipline of institutional economics has gained increasing prominence in recent years,
because standard economic explanations can often not come to grips with major …

How may we explain the varied performance of the world's many economies? The founders
of modern economics–especially Adam Smith–would have had no trouble pointing to the …

Institutional economics originated in the work of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons and
Wesley C. Mitchell, as well as numerous others, including some, very eclectic, like John …

Where do institutions come from? What role do they play? How do they interrelate with one
other within each economy and across economies? Can they be designed to change …

When economic sociology appeared on the academic scene in the mid-1980s its
interactions with New Institutional Economics were soon plentiful as well as productive …

This book examines and compares the two major traditions of thought that have attempted to
incorporate institutions within economics. These are the" Old"(or American) Institutionalist …

Over the last ten to fifteen years, there has been a remarkable expansion of research
activities in the field of modern institutional economics. Not only is the volume of new …