Institutional economics is an increasingly important area in the field which
also verges into political science and sociology.
This concise and lucid textbook, which assumes a basic understanding of neoclassical
economics, introduces the key ideas, emphasizing the "new" institutional
economics but grounding readers in the traditional perspectives.
ANNETTE VAN DEN BERG is Lecturer of Institutional Economics at Utrecht
University.
ANTOON SPITHOVEN is Lecturer of Institutional Economics at Utrecht
University.
JOHN GROENEWEGEN is Professor of Institutional Economics at Rotterdam
School of Economics of Erasmus University Rotterdam. He is also Professor of Economics of
Infrastructures at the Technical University Delft.
Table of Contents
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
• What is Institutional Economics about?
• PART TWO: THEORY
• Theoretical Framework
• Static Approaches to Institutions
• The Dynamics of Institutions
• PART THREE: PRIVATE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
• Markets
• Firms
* Cooperations Between Firms
• PART FOUR: PUBLIC GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
• State Intervention to Protect the Public Interest
• Government Failures
324 pages, Hardcover