Economics, Cognition, and Society (Series)

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Institutions and Economic Theory

The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics

2nd Edition

By Eirik G. Furubotn & Rudolf Richter
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the NIE with a critical assessment of its theoretical contributions

Altruistically Inclined?

The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity

By Alexander J. Field
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Anthropology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An exploration of the role of altruism in the discipline of economics

Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy

By W. Brian Arthur
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Micro Economics
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Pioneering work on an important new approach to economics.

Markets and Cultural Voices

Liberty vs. Power in the Lives of Mexican Amate Painters

By Tyler Cowen
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Latin American Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the world of three Mexican artists to reveal how globalization shapes their lives

Growth Triumphant

The Twenty-first Century in Historical Perspective

By Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Sociology, Economics, Economic Theory
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An economic historian and demographer considers what the world, freed from material need, will look like

Preference Pollution

How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike

By David George
Subjects: Economics, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explores the failure of markets to shape desirable preferences

Imperfect Institutions

Possibilities and Limits of Reform

By Thráinn Eggertsson
Subjects: Economics
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Surveys the new institutional theory of economic prosperity -- and decline. Explores institutional policy and opportunities for reform.

Capitol Investments

The Marketability of Political Skills

By Glenn R. Parker
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, American Politics, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

A sophisticated yet accessible analysis of the acquisition and marketability of political skills

Integrity and Agreement

Economics When Principles Also Matter

By Alanson Minkler
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, System -- Development
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Moral principle---not mere self-interest---drives rational decision making

The Cult of Statistical Significance

How the Standard Error Costs Us Jobs, Justice, and Lives

By Deirdre Nansen McCloskey & Steve Ziliak
Subjects: Economics, History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory, Political Science, Political Methodology, Sociology, History, Intellectual History, Health & Medicine, European History, Nature/Environment, Environmental Studies, Philosophy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How the most important statistical method used in many of the sciences doesn't pass the test for basic common sense

Social Science Knowledge and Economic Development

An Institutional Design Perspective

By Vernon W. Ruttan
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Anthropology, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Synthesizes various strands of social science research and thought, including evolution of thought about development in anthropology, sociology, political science, and growth economics

Signaling Goodness

Social Rules and Public Choice

By Phillip J. Nelson & Kenneth V. Greene
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

A new approach to analyzing political and charitable behavior posits that morality significantly affects that behavior

Democracy, Governance, and Growth

Edited by Stephen Knack
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Political Science, Political Economy, Law
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Demonstrates the importance of governance and social institutions to economic performance

From Liberty to Democracy

The Transformation of American Government

By Randall G. Holcombe
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, History of Economic Thought, History, American History, Political Science, Political Economy
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An analysis of American political history using the economic framework of public choice theory

The Great Breakthrough and Its Cause

By Julian Lincoln Simon
Edited by Timur Kuran
Foreword by Richard A. Easterlin
Subjects: Economics, Economic Theory, History, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Illuminates and explains the emergence of modern economic development in Western Europe after the seventeenth century

Growth Recurring

Economic Change in World History

By Eric Lionel Jones
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, International Economics, History, Asian Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An affordable new edition intended for course use

Regions, Institutions, and Agrarian Change in European History

By Rosemary Lynn Hopcroft
Subjects: Economics, Political Science, Political Economy, History, Sociology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

An institutional approach to agricultural development in Europe leading to the "Rise of the West"

Titles, Conflict, and Land Use

The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier

By Lee J. Alston, Gary D. Libecap, and Bernardo Mueller
Subjects: Economics, Latin American Studies, Law, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Describes conflicts over land use on the Brazilian frontier and analyzes the evolution of property rights from an institutional perspective

The Rebel's Dilemma

By Mark I. Lichbach
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Political Science, Political Methodology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

The author brings significant new insights to the study of dissent, rebellion, and revolution

Economics and Evolution

Bringing Life Back into Economics

By Geoffrey Hodgson
Subjects: Economics
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How evolutionary ideas can be used to reconstruct economics.

The Cooperator's Dilemma

Edited by Mark I. Lichbach
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Political Science
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

A comprehensive and current presentation of the collective-action approach

Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution

East Germany, 1989

By Karl-Dieter Opp, Christiane Gern, and Peter Voss
Subjects: Economics, Sociology, Political Science, German Studies
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Explains the extraordinary collapse of Communist East Germany

Trust, Ethnicity, and Identity

Beyond the New Institutional Economics of Ethnic Trading Networks, Contract Law, and Gift-Exchange

By Janet Landa
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development, Anthropology
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

How ethnic kin-based trading networks can rely on trust when a well-developed framework of contract laws is missing

Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics

Edited by Richard W. England
Subjects: Economics, System -- Development
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society

Paradigms and Conventions

Uncertainty, Decision Making, and Entrepreneurship

By Young Back Choi
Subjects: Economics, Micro Economics, Political Science, Comparative Politics, Industrial Organization
Series: Economics, Cognition, and Society
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