Sociology has recently witnessed a rapprochement between research on organizations and
research on law. This essay reviews a number of central developments and tendencies in …

The variant of new institutionalism that is our focus is a pan-disciplinary theory that asserts
that actors pursue their interests by making choices within institutional constraints. We …

The philosopher Cristina Bicchieri here develops her theory of social norms, most recently
explained in her 2006 volume The Grammar of Society. Bicchieri challenges many of the …

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 …

Принято считать, что существующие различия в экономике, политике и обществе
отражают влияние различных институтов. Но среди экономистов, политологов и …

Providers of private governance can be geographically based and have a comprehensive
set of rules for many aspects of life (as in a boarding school or a kibbutz), or they can be …

Over the past two decades, governments have delegated extensive regulatory authority to
international private-sector organizations. This internationalization and privatization of rule …

What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

Law and Economics (2-downloads) Page 1 SIXTH EDITION Law& Economics ROBERT
COOTER University of California, Berkeley THOMAS ULEN University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign …

This article synthesizes the large but diverse literature on organizational legitimacy,
highlighting similarities and disparities among the leading strategic and institutional …