Material for Response Papers
Material for EC487 Readings in Institutional Economics
- 1st week
- Groenewegen, J., A. Spithoven & A.van den Berg (2010) Institutional Economics: An Introduction, Palgrave Macmillan. Part One.
- 2nd week
- Olson, Mancur (1996) “Big Bills Left on the Side Walk: Why Some Nations are Rich and Others are Poor?”, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (2): 3-24.
- 3rd week
- Hodgson, G. M. (1998) “The Approach of Institutional Economics”, Journal of Economic Literature, 36 (1): 166-192.
- 4th week
- Chavance, Bernard. 2009. Institutional Economics. Francis Wells. London: Routledge. 1st & 2nd Chapters
- 5th week
- Fine, Ben & Milonakis, D. (2009) From Political Economy to Economics: method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory, London: Routledge. 9th Chapter
- 6th week
- Chavance, Bernard. 2009. Institutional Economics. Francis Wells. London: Routledge. 3rd & 4th Chapters
- 7th week
- H. Peyton Young (1996) “The Economics of Convention”, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 10 (2), pp. 105-122, URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2138484
- Chavance, Bernard (2009) Institutional Economics. Francis Wells. London: Routledge. 5th Chapter
- Williamson, Oliver E. (2000) “The New Institutional Economics”, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXVIII: 595-613. (Optional)
- 8th week
- Coase, Ronald (1937) “The Nature of the Firm”, Economica, 4: 386-405
- Coase, Ronald (1991) “The Institutional Structure of Production” Nobel Prize Lecture, Reprinted in Menard, C & M. M. Shirley (eds) (2005) Handbook of New Institutional Economics, Springer, p. 31-39.
- 9th week
- North, Douglass C. (1997) “The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development” in Harriss, John, Janet Hunter, Colin M. Lewis, and (eds) The new institutional economics and Third World development. London; New York: Routledge, pp. 17-26.
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- 10th week
- World Economic Outlook: Growth and Institutions (April 2003) Chapter 3: Growth and Institutions. Online: http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/weo/2003/01/pdf/chapter3.pdf
- Rodrik, Dani (2000) INSTITUTIONS FOR HIGH-QUALITY GROWTH: WHAT THEY ARE AND HOW TO ACQUIRE THEM, Working Paper 7540, Online: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7540
- Aron, Janine (2000) “Growth and Institutions: A Review of the Evidence”, The World Bank Research Observer, vol. 15, no. 1 (February 2000), pp. 99–135. Online: http://w3.ced.unicz.it/upload/daniele/ecoapplicata1.pdf