Author : Wolfgang Streeck
Publisher : Sage Publications (CA)
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 24,86 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Proceeding from the insight that markets and rational economic action perform best if embedded in culturally and politically generated opportunities and constraints, Streeck offers a rationale for positive political intervention in post-socialist capitalist market economies.
Author : Douglass C. North
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 1990-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521397346
An analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies is developed in this analysis of economic structures.
Author : Elhanan Helpman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674030770
Institutions and Economic Performance explores the question of why income per capita varies so greatly across countries. Even taking into account disparities in resources, including physical and human capital, large economic discrepancies remain across countries. Why are some societies but not others able to encourage investments in places, people, and productivity? The answer, the book argues, lies to a large extent in institutional differences across societies. Such institutions are wide-ranging and include formal constitutional arrangements, the role of economic and political elites, informal institutions that promote investment and knowledge transfer, and others. Two core themes run through the contributors’ essays. First, what constraints do institutions place on the power of the executive to prevent it from extorting the investments and effort of other people and institutions? Second, when are productive institutions self-enforcing? Institutions and Economic Performance is unique in its melding of economics, political science, history, and sociology to address its central question.
Author : Eric M. Uslaner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190274816
This volume explores the foundations of trust, and whether social and political trust have common roots. Contributions by noted scholars examine how we measure trust, the cultural and social psychological roots of trust, the foundations of political trust, and how trust concerns the law, the economy, elections, international relations, corruption, and cooperation, among myriad societal factors. The rich assortment of essays on these themes addresses questions such as: How does national identity shape trust, and how does trust form in developing countries and in new democracies? Are minority groups less trusting than the dominant group in a society? Do immigrants adapt to the trust levels of their host countries? Does group interaction build trust? Does the welfare state promote trust and, in turn, does trust lead to greater well-being and to better health outcomes? The Oxford Handbook of Social and Political Trust considers these and other questions of critical importance for current scholarly investigations of trust.
Author : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136600450
In order for economic specialization to develop, it is important that well-defined property rights are established and that suspicion and fear of fraud do not pervade transactions. Such conditions cannot be created ex abrubto, but must somehow evolve. What needs to develop is not only suitable practices and rules themselves, but also the public agencies and moral environment without which generalized trust is difficult to establish. The cultural endowment of societies as they have developed over their particular histories is bound to play a major role in this regard, and the matter of cultual endowment is one of the central themes of this book. On the other hand, division of labour does not only require well-enforced property rights and trust in economic dealings. It is also critically conditioned by the thickness of economic space, itself dependent on population density. This provides the second major theme of the volume: market development, including the development of private property rights is not possible, or will remain very incomplete, if populations are thinly spread over large areas of land. The book makes special reference to sub-Saharan Africa.
Author : Jean-Marie Baland
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 18,27 MB
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691191212
"The essential role institutions play in understanding economic development has long been recognised and has been closely studied across the social sciences but some of the most high profile work has been done by economists many of whom are included in this collection covering a wide range of topics including the relationship between institutions and growth, educational systems, the role of the media and the intersection between traditional systems of patronage and political institutions. Each chapter covers the frontier research in its area and points to new areas of research and is the product of extensive workshopping and editing. The editors have also written an excellent introduction which brings together the key themes of the handbook. The list of contributors is stellar (Steven Durlauf, Throsten Beck, Bob Allen,and includes a diverse mix of Western and non Western, male and female scholars)"
Author : Douglass Cecil North
Publisher : Ics Press
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Economic development
ISBN : 9781558152113
Author : Yi Feng
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 20,63 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262562119
A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.
Author : Stephen H. Haber
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 29,78 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780804756921
The essays in this volume employ the insights and techniques of political science, economics and history to provide a fresh answer to this question.
Author : Michael Storper
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 34,73 MB
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1400846269
Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper identifies four contexts that shape urban economic development: economic, institutional, innovational and interactional, and political. The book explores how these contexts operate and how they interact, leading to developmental success in some regions and failure in others. Demonstrating that the global economy is increasingly driven by its major cities, the keys to the city are the keys to global development. In his conclusion, Storper specifies eight rules of economic development targeted at policymakers. Keys to the City explains why economists, sociologists, and political scientists should take geography seriously.
