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Month: February 2019

Social and scientific disorder as epistemic phenomena, or the consequences of government dietary guidelines

Posted on February 21, 2019September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (First View, 23 October 2018) by Scott Scheall College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Arizona State University, William N. Butos, Department of Economics, Trinity College, Hartford and Thomas McQuade, Independent Scholar, Honolulu. The article is open access and available on the JOIE website Science is a process, and scientific knowledge emerges out of the interactions…

Article Summary: “From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt” Dácil Juif and Ewout Frankema

Posted on February 21, 2019April 28, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of Article Published in Volume 14, Special Issue 2 (Colonial Institutions and African Development) in April 2018 by Dácil Juif, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, and Ewout Frankema, Wageningen University. The full article is available here. The Central African Copperbelt offers a fascinating case for a comparative study of colonial institutional development. We conducted…

Article Summary: “The failure of ancient Greek growth: institutions, culture and energy cost” George Tridimas

Posted on February 17, 2019April 28, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of article published in First View, Journal of Institutional Economics on 21st June 2018, by George Tridimas, Ulster Business School, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics. The full article is available on the JOIE website Recent research has shown that over the period 800-300 BCE ancient Greece experienced significant population growth and substantial improvement in…

Article Summary: “Taxonomic Definitions in Social Science” Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Posted on February 12, 2019April 28, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2018) ‘Taxonomic Definitions in Social Science, with Firms, Markets and Institutions as Case Studies’, Journal of Institutional Economics, published online. Forthcoming in issue 15(2), April 2019. DOI: 10.1017/S1744137418000334.  By Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Loughborough University London, UK.  This paper is open access and is available HERE. Introduction Definitions are crucial for social science. This…

How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies”

Posted on February 11, 2019September 21, 2022 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article “How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies”, by  Roberto Ricciuti, University of Verona and CESifo; Antonio Savoia, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester; and Kunal Sen, UNU-WIDER and Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The capability to raise revenues from taxes – often called fiscal…

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