La JOIE du printemps
As spring flowers blossom, the April 2006 issue of the Journal of Institutional Economics (JOIE) has appeared.
Contents of the April 2006 issue
John T. Davis, "The turn in economics: neoclassical dominance to mainstream pluralism?"
Antonella Zucchella, "Local cluster dynamics: trajectories of mature industrial districts between decline and multiple embeddedness"
Huáscar Fialho Pessali, "The rhetoric of Oliver Williamson's transaction cost economics"
Werner Hölzl, "Convergence of financial systems: towards an evolutionary perspective"
Christopher May, "Social limits to the commodification of knowledge: ten years of TRIPs"
Werner Sombart (1929), "Economic theory and economic history"
Selected articles from the first (2005) volume
John Searle, "What is an institution?"
Viktor Vanberg, "Market and state: the perspective of constitutional political economy"
Cristiano Antonelli, "Models of knowledge and systems of governance"
Michel Zouboulakis, "On the evolutionary character of North's idea of institutional change"
Axel Ockenfels and Werner Güth, "The coevolution of morality and legal institutions: an indirect evolutionary approach"
Elaine Tan, "Ideology, interest groups and institutional change: the case of the British prohibition of payments in kind"
Matthew Wilson, "Institutionalism, critical realism and the critique of mainstream economics"
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GeoffHodgson
Research Professor
University of Hertfordshire