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Article Summary: “What makes prosecutors independent? Analysing the institutional determinants of prosecutorial independence”, Stefan Voigt and Alexander J. Wulf
Summary of JOIE article “What makes prosecutors independent? Analysing the institutional determinants of prosecutorial independence”, by Stefan Voigt (Institute of Law and Economics, Unive... Read More
Article Summary: “Private Provision of Public Goods via Crowdfunding”, Marek Hudik and Robert Chovanculiak
Summary of JOIE article “Private Provision of Public Goods via Crowdfunding”, by Marek Hudik (Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, Suzhou, China) and Robert Chovanculiak (Institute... Read More
Article Summary: “1688 and All That: Property Rights, the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of British Capitalism”, Geoffrey Hodgson
Summary of JOIE article “1688 and All That: Property Rights, the Glorious Revolution and the Rise of British Capitalism”, Journal of Institutional Economics, 13(1), March, pp. 79-107, by G... Read More
Article Summary: “Property as sequential exchange: the forgotten limits of private contract”, Benito Arruñada
Summary of JOIE articles “Property as sequential exchange: the forgotten limits of private contract” and “How should we model property? Thinking with my critics“, Benito Arruñ... Read More
Historical and Institutional Analysis in Economics: The Case of Analytic Narratives
I will participate in two weeks as a keynote speaker in the Interdisciplinary Symposium organized by the University of Corsica. The symposium features a track “Interdisciplinarity in economics&#... Read More
Article Summary: “Institutions and Place: Rethinking the Political Economy of the Resource Curse”, José Carlos Orihuela
Summary of JOIE article “Institutions and Place: Rethinking the Political Economy of the Resource Curse”, by José Carlos Orihuela (Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú). The article... Read More
The 2016 Thomson-Reuters Citation Impact Factor for JOIE
Post written by Geoffrey M Hodgson JOIE Editor-in-Chief (with the kind help of Hannah Patrick from CUP) One of the most important indicators of the visibility and engagement of a scientific journal is... Read More
When Social Ontology Meets Economics
A recent issue of the Journal of Institutional Economics was partially dedicated to the nature of rules and institutions. It was centered on an important and stimulating paper by philosophers Frank Hi... Read More