Institutional Economics: Social Order and Public Policy

by Wolfgang Kasper and Manfred E. Streit

Book Overview

The discipline of institutional economics has gained increasing prominence in recent years, because standard economic explanations can often not come to grips with major contemporary policy issues, such as economic reform in affluent, but dysfunctional economies, the transformation of the failed socialist command economies and the governance problems of the new industrial economies. Institutional economists point out that rule systems matter greatly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840642459
• ISBN13: 9781840642452
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"