| Title: | Economic interests and institutions : the conceptual foundations of public policy |
| Authors: | Daniel W. Bromley, Author |
| Publisher: | New York : B.Blackwell, 1989 |
| ISBN (or other code): | 978-1-55786-014-9 |
| Size: | 1 vol. (viii, 274 p.) / ill. / 24 cm |
| General note: | Includes index |
| Languages: | English |
| Descriptors: |
[Eurovoc] ECONOMICS > economic policy [Eurovoc] POLITICS > executive power and public service > public administration > public policy [Eurovoc] SCIENCE > humanities > social sciences > political science |
| Tags: | institutional economics |
| Abstract: | This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the public policy problem, the role of economic institutions in the design of new policy initiatives, and the way in which economic theory can be used to understand and explain institutional change. Efforts in economics to eliminate political forces as explanatory vaiables in institutional change - in the apparent hope of rendering economic models more rigorous and hence more scientific - have led to models of institutional change that are largely tautological. The author develops a model of institutional change that offers an escape from the circulatory of present models. |
| Contents note: |
Part I Interests and Institutions On Institutional Change: The Conventional Views I The Property-Rights View II Induced Institutional Change III The North Model of Institutional Change IV An Expanded View of Institutional Change 3. The Nature of Institutions I The Practice of Institutions II The Concept of Institutions III Institutions as Legal Relations IV Institutions and Markets: The Economy as a Set of Ordered Relations V The Normative Content of Institutions VI Individuals, Markets, and Coercion VII Summary 4. Preferences, Choices and Institutions I Preferences, Revealed and Otherwise II Preferences and Choices III Summary
Part II Institutional Change 5. Institutional Transactions I The Economy and Institutional Change II Institutions and Efficiency, Again III On Efficiency and Optimality IV Institutional Transactions V Summary 6. Interests, Institutions, and the Framing of Choice I Missing Markets, Present-Valued Caims and Discounted Interests II Entitlements, Risk and Choices III Entitlements and Efficiency: Reallocating Economic Opportunity IV Language and Concepts: Productivity and Efficiency V Summary 7. Property Rights and Institutional Change I Concepts of Property in Economics II The Essence of Ownership III The Philosophical Case for Private Property IV The Practice of Property V Property Entitlements VI Summary Part III Institutions and Policy Analysis 8. Theory Science and Policy Science: Beyond Positivism I Beyond Positivism: Policy Science and Theory Science II Institutions and a New Research Philosophy III Summary 9. The Policy Problem. |
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| Barcode | Call number | Media type | Location | Section | Status |
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| 004747 | P 268 | Livre | Centre de documentation du CERDI / Ecole d'Economie | Salle de lecture | Available |
