| Description |
1 online resource (x, 274 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : The broader view / Mancur Olson and Satu Kähkönen -- Big bills left on the sidewalk : why some nations are rich, and others poor / Mancur Olson -- Innovation and its enemies : the economic and political roots of technological inertia / Joel Mokyr -- Economic institutions and development : a view from the bottom / Oliver E. Williamson -- Dictatorship, democracy, and development / Mancur Olson -- Overstrong against thyself : war, the state, and growth in Europe on the eve of the Industrial Revolution / J. Bradford De Long -- The Swedish model : a comment on Mancur Olson's analysis / Erik Moberg -- Affirmative action and reservations in the American and Indian labor markets : are they really that bad? / Edward Montgomery -- Communities and development : autarkic social groups and the economy / Russell Hardin -- Law from order : economic development and the jurisprudence of social norms / Robert D. Cooter -- The nature of institutional impediments to economic development / Pranab Bardhan |
| Summary |
This book strives to prove that economics is no longer the dismal science it was once described as. The economic ideas used in the social sciences, and the increased use of economics and economists' methods have helped this change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Institutional economics.
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Economics.
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Social sciences.
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Economics
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Social Sciences
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economics.
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social sciences.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Economics
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Institutional economics
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Social sciences
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Institutionele economie.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Olson, Mancur.
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Kähkönen, Satu.
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| ISBN |
0198293690 |
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9780198293699 |
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0198294905 |
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9780198294900 |
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9780191522147 |
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0191522147 |
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9780191596728 |
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0191596728 |
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