Institutions: Theory, History and Context-Specific Analysis

Aydinonat, N. Emrah (2006): Institutions: Theory, History and Context-Specific Analysis. Published in: History of Economic Ideas , Vol. XIV, No. 3 (2006): pp. 145-158.

Abstract

A review essay on Avner Greif, Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, xx+503.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Institutions; History; Game Theory; Context Specific Analysis
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B4 - Economic Methodology > B41 - Economic Methodology; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C7 - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory > C70 - General; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches > B52 - Institutional ; Evolutionary; B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925 > B25 - Historical ; Institutional ; Evolutionary ; Austrian

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