Mainstream economics has changed radically since the 1980s, offering greatly enhanced
opportunities for intervention by evolutionary and institutional economics. This article …

This article reviews some theoretical questions concerning the processes of institutional
evolution. The necessity of assuming the prior existence of some other institutions, such as …

A few centuries ago, capitalism set in motion an explosion of economic productivity. Markets
and private property had existed for millennia, but what other key institutions fostered …

Norms have never been absent from the study of international politics, but the sweeping
“ideational turn” in the 1980s and 1990s brought them back as a central theoretical concern …

Page 1 RULES, GAMES, & COMMON-POOL RESOURCES Elinor Ostrom, Roy Gardner, &
James Walker MICHIGAN Page 2 Page 3 Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources This …

Institutions are the kinds of structures that matter most in the social realm: they make up the
stuff of social life. The increasing acknowledgement of the role of institutions in social life …

The history of international political orders is written in terms of continuity and change in
domestic and international political relations. As a step toward understanding such …

Social constructivism in international relations has come into its own during the past decade,
not only as a metatheoretical critique of currently dominant neo-utilitarian approaches (neo …

T ODAY, THE TERM" new institutional economics" is in widespread use and is associated
with a vast literature. Clearly, the temporal adjective in the adopted title of this broad set of …

Paru en 1990 en anglais et en 2010 en français, cet ouvrage majeur d'Elinor Ostrom lui a
valu un Prix Nobel en 2009. Compilant des données de terrain recueillies par plusieurs …