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Institutions and Development
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 241

Institutions and Development

Both economic research and the history of foreign aid suggest that the largest barriers to development arise from a society's institutions - its norms and rules. This book explains how institutions drive economic development. It provides numerous examples to illustrate the complex, interlocking, and persistent nature of real world rules and norms.

Handbook of New Institutional Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 875

Handbook of New Institutional Economics

New Institutional Economics (NIE) has skyrocketed in scope and influence over the last three decades. This first Handbook of NIE provides a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations. Contributions analyse the domain and perspectives of NIE; sections on legal institutions, political institutions, transaction cost economics, governance, contracting, institutional change, and more capture NIE's interdisciplinary nature. This Handbook will be of interest to economists, political scientists, legal scholars, management specialists, sociologists, and others wishing to learn more about this important subject and gain insight into progress made by institutionalists from other disciplines. This compendium of analyses by some of the foremost NIE specialists, including Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, and Oliver Williamson, gives students and new researchers an introduction to the topic and offers established scholars a reference book for their research.

Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics

New institutional economics (NIE) is a powerful tool for understanding real world phenomena. This Advanced Introduction explores NIE’s answers to fundamental questions about the organization, growth and development of economies, such as why are some countries rich and others poor? Why are activities organized as firms or markets or through alternative organizational solutions? When are shared resources overexploited?

A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

A Research Agenda for New Institutional Economics

Consisting of 30 concise chapters written by top scholars, this Research Agenda probes the knowledge frontiers of issues long at the forefront of New Institutional Economics (NIE), including government, contracts and property rights. It examines pressing research questions surrounding norms, culture, and beliefs. It is designed to inform and inspire students and those starting their careers in economics, law and political science. Well-established scholars will also find the book invaluable in updating their understanding of crucial research questions and seeking new areas to explore.

Bureaucrats in Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Bureaucrats in Business

Refer review of this policy book in 'Journal of International Development, vol. 10, 7, 1998. pp.841-855.

Privatization
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 100

Privatization

Governance, as defined by the World Bank in its 1992 report, Governance and Development, is the manner in which power is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources for development. The report deemed it is within the Bank's mandate to focus on the following: -the process by which authority is exercised in the management of a country's economic and social resources -the capacity of governments to design, formulate, and implement policies and discharge functions. Also available: Governance: The World Bank's Experience (ISBN 0-8213-2804-2) Stock No. 12804.

Thirsting for Efficiency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 400

Thirsting for Efficiency

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2002
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  • Publisher: Elsevier

By analyzing water supply reforms in six developing country's capitals, this text provides a legal, economic and political examination of countries, tolerant of mismanagement of their water and sewerage systems for decades, that suddenly develop a thirst for efficiency.

The First Two Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 513

The First Two Years

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The First Two Years
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

The First Two Years

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1973-11
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  • Publisher: Greenwood

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Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 488

Institutions, Contracts, and Organizations

A presentation of contributions from some of the world's leading economists, including Ronald Coase and Douglass North. It demonstrates the extent and depth of the New Institutional Economics research programme with special emphasis on the interaction between institutional factors.