The Economics of Social Institutions

Edited by John B. Davis, Professor of Economics, Marquette University, US and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Asimina Christoforou, Adjunct Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

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Acknowledgements

Introduction John B. Davis and Asimina Christoforou

PART IEARLY CONTRIBUTIONS
1. Thorstein Veblen (1898), ‘Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?’
2. Walton H. Hamilton (1919), ‘The Institutional Approach to Economic Theory’
3. John R. Commons (1931), ‘Institutional Economics’
4. Karl Polanyi (1957), ‘The Economy As Instituted Process’
5. Anne Mayhew (1987), ‘The Beginnings of Institutionalism’

PART IIMETHODOLOGICAL AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
6. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (2006), ‘What are Institutions?’
7. John R. Searle (2005), ‘What is an Institution?’
8. Mark Granovetter (1985), ‘Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness’
9. Fikret Adaman and Yahya M. Madra (2002), ‘Theorizing the “Third Sphere”: A Critique of the Persistence of the “Economistic Fallacy”’
10. Elinor Ostrom (2007), ‘Challenges and Growth: The Development of the Interdisciplinary Field of Institutional Analysis’

PART IIIOLD INSTITUTIONALISM
11. Warren J. Samuels (1995), ‘The Present State of Institutional Economics’
12. Geoffrey M. Hodgson (1998), ‘The Approach of Institutional Economics’
13. Malcolm Rutherford (2001), ‘Institutional Economics: Then and Now’
14. Tony Lawson (2003), ‘Institutionalism: On the Need to Firm Up Notions of Social Structure and the Human Subject’

PART IVNEW INSTITUTIONALISM
15. Douglass C. North (1991), ‘Institutions’
16. Mancur Olson (1993), ‘Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development’
17. Oliver E. Williamson (2000), ‘The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead’
18. Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (2005), ‘Unbundling Institutions’

PART VSOCIAL COSTS
19. Ronald Coase (1960), ‘The Problem of Social Costs’
20. K. William Kapp (1969), ‘On the Nature and Significance of Social Costs’

PART VIGROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
21. R.C.O. Matthews (1986), ‘The Economics of Institutions and the Sources of Growth’
22. Dani Rodrik, Arvind Subramanian and Francesco Trebbi (2004), ‘Institutions Rule: The Primacy of Institutions Over Geography and Integration in Economic Development’
23. Richard G. Lipsey (2009), ‘Economic Growth Related to Mutually Interdependent Institutions and Technology’
24. Ha-Joon Chang (2011), ‘Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, Policy and History’

PART VIIINSTITUTIONS AND CHANGE
25. Viktor Vanberg and Wolfgang Kerber (1994), ‘Institutional Competition among Jurisdictions: An Evolutionary Approach’
26. Samuel Bowles (1998), ‘Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions’
27. Masahiko Aoki (2007), ‘Endogenizing Institutions and Institutional Changes’
28. Avner Greif and David D. Laitin (2004), ‘A Theory of Endogenous Institutional Change’
29. Paul A. David (1994), ‘Why are Institutions the “Carriers of History”? Path Dependence and the Evolution of Conventions, Organizations and Institutions’

PART VIIIINSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS
30. Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell (1983), ‘The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields’
31. Claude Ménard (1995), ‘Markets as Institutions versus Organizations as Markets? Disentangling Some Fundamental Concepts’
32. Richard A. Posner (2010), ‘From the New Institutional Economics to Organization Economics: With Applications to Corporate Governance, Government Agencies, and Legal Institutions’

PART IXCOOPERATIVE INSTITUTIONS
33. Richard Steinberg (1997), ‘Overall Evaluation of Economic Theories’
34. Frederic L. Pryor (1983), ‘The Economics of Production Cooperatives: A Reader’s Guide’
35. Chris Mason, James Kirkbride and David Bryde (2007), ‘From Stakeholders to Institutions: The Changing Face of Social Enterprise Governance Theory’
36. Giulia Galera and Carlo Borzaga (2009), ‘Social Enterprise: An International Overview of its Conceptual Evolution and Legal Implementation’