Alternative Institutional Structures

Alternative Institutional Structures
Author: Sandra Batie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 553
Release: 2008-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113597490X

In the spring on 2006, a workshop was held at Michigan State University to honour the career of A. Allan Schmid and his writings about how institutions evolve and how alternative institutions, including property rights, shape political relationships and impact economic performance. This edited book is the outcome of the workshop. It is a collection

Alternative Institutional Structures

Alternative Institutional Structures
Author: Sandra Batie
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2008-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135974918

This book is the outcome of a workshop at Michigan State University on the career of A. Allan Schmid offering a collection of original essays that explore several approaches to understanding the impact of alternative legal-economic institutions.

Housing and Residential Structure

Housing and Residential Structure
Author: John Short
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000374238

First published in 1980, Housing and Residential Structure was written to take stock of the many changes that had recently taken place in explanatory approaches to housing markets and residential structure. The book is divided into three parts. Part One focuses on the demand-orientated approaches of human ecology and neo-classical economics. Part Two discusses the institutional approaches with reference to an analysis of private and public sector housing in Britain, drawing on illustrative material from North America and France to aid the comparative analysis of institutional structures. Part Three is devoted to an evaluation of the Marxist approaches to housing and residential structure from Marx and Engels to Castells and Harvey.

Imperfect Alternatives

Imperfect Alternatives
Author: Neil K. Komesar
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1997-01-15
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780226450896

Major approaches to law and public policy, ranging from law and economics to the fundamental rights approach to constitutional law, are based on the belief that the identification of the correct social goals or values is the key to describing or prescribing law and public policy outcomes. In this book, Neil Komesar argues that this emphasis on goal choice ignores an essential element—institutional choice. Indeed, as important as determining our social goals is deciding which institution is best equipped to implement them—the market, the political process, or the adjucative process. Pointing out that all three institutions are massive, complex, and imperfect, Komesar develops a strategy for comparative institutional analysis that assesses variations in institutional ability. He then powerfully demonstrates the value of this analytical framework by using it to examine important contemporary issues ranging from tort reform to constitution-making.

Conflict and Cooperation

Conflict and Cooperation
Author: A. Allan Schmid
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1405142383

Allan Schmid’s innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics,investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology, law, and political science. Addresses formal and informal institutions, the impact of alternative institutions, and institutional change and evolution. Presents a framework open to changing preferences, bounded rationality, and evolution. Explains how to form empirically testable hypotheses using experiments, case studies, and econometrics. Includes numerous practice and discussion questions.

Economics and the Law

Economics and the Law
Author: Nicholas Mercuro
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2006-08-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0691125724

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Five Basic Institution Structures and Institutional Economics

Five Basic Institution Structures and Institutional Economics
Author: Shaorong Sun
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2018-03-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789811091384

This book discusses a development in institutional economics and management science, which provides engineering methods for institution design. Based on the “Sun Diagram” created by the author, it uses graphics and calculations to explain that there are only five fundamental management institution structures, each of which has a particular management effect. It also demonstrates that production activities should be managed with different institutions according to the differences in externalities. This significant book suggests ways of using institution design to tackle the key challenges faced by societies today, such as environmental pollution, over-consumption of natural resources, carbon emissions, world peace issues and stagnating productivity levels.