Economic Analysis of Institutions and Systems (Hardcover, 2nd rev. ed. 1998)

In the late 1980s, the field of comparative economics and NATO faced a similar problem: the threat of obsolescence. A predictable reaction of those who had made major investments in both comparative economics and NATO was to look for a new job. It was time to say: comparative economic systems are dead, long live comparative economic systems. The purpose of this book is to redirect study of what we called comparative economic systems toward analysis of the development of institutions and the effects of alternative institutional arrangements on economic performance. To that end, the book internalizes into a theoretical framework (1) the effects of alternative property rights on the costs of transactions and incentives structures, (2) the effects of the costs of transactions and incentives on economic behavior, and (3) the evidence for refutable implications of those effects. Analysis here focuses on the issues, propositions and conclusions that lend themselves to the only known scientific test: empirical verification. Thus, this book is not about what socialism or capitalism could have been, should have been, or should be. Nor is it an ode to capitalism. Its purpose is not to assert that capitalism is a better economic system than socialism. The history of this century and the market for institutions have done that. My purpose is to explain what is it that makes the institutions of capitalism better in terms of economic outcome than all other alternatives that have been tried since the beginning of recorded history.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 33
Release date:	October 1997
First published:	1998
Authors:	S Pejovich
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	221
Edition:	2nd rev. ed. 1998
ISBN-13:	978-0-7923-8031-3
Categories:	Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic systems > General Promotions
LSN:	0-7923-8031-2
Barcode:	9780792380313

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