Economic Behavior and Institutions - Principles of Neoinstitutional Economics

Zusammenfassung This book is a comprehensive survey of 'neoinstitutional economics'! which integrates neo-classical economic theory and the effects of institutions on economic behaviour. This unified approach emphasises economics of property rights! the theory of the firm! cliometrics! law and economics. This book is a primary resource for economists and students studying this important branch of economic theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Introduction to the Theory: 1. Generalising neoclassical economics: new tools and concepts; 2. Property rights, agency and economic organisation; 3. Explaining the rules; Part II. Property Rights and Economic Outcomes: 4. The economics of exclusive rights; 5. The ownership structure of firms and equilibrium outcomes; Part III. Explaining Economic Organisation: 6. The contractual nature of the firm; 7. The logic of economic organisation; Part IV. Explaining Property Rights: 8. The emergence of property rights; 9. Property rights in stateless societies; 10. The state in neoinstitutional economics.

Product details

• Authors: Thrainn Eggertsson, Nroainn Eggertsson, Rainn
• Assisted by: John Pencavel (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.06.1990
• EAN: 9780521348911
• ISBN: 978-0-521-34891-1
• No. of pages: 404
• Series: Cambridge Surveys of Economic Literature; Cambridge Surveys of Economic
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics