Author: Nikhilesh Sinha
Nikhilesh Sinha teaches courses at the Hult International Business School London, where he is also a Research Fellow. While his primary discipline is economics, his research draws on the wider social sciences and is focused on issues facing the poor in developing countries, particularly in Asia and Africa. He has published most recently on rental housing and on the 2010 Microfinance Crisis in India.
Article Summary: “Conspicuous Consumption, Sexual Selection, and Social Institutions: The Darwinian Dynamic Thorstein Veblen Missed,” Jon D. Wisman
Summary of JOIE Article (Volume 15(1) February 2019), by Jon D. Wisman, Professor, Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. The full article is available on the JOIE website Of Ve... Read More
Article Summary: “Rules, perception and emotion: When do institutions determine behaviour?” Brendan Markey-Towler
Summary of JOIE article (First View, 16 November 2019) by Brendan Markey-Towler, Affiliated researcher, RMIT Blockchain Innovation Hub. The full article is available on the JOIE website In my recent p... Read More
Article Summary: “Social and scientific disorder as epistemic phenomena, or the consequences of government dietary guidelines” Scott Scheall, William N. Butos and Thomas McQuade
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,... Read More
Article Summary: “From Coercion to Compensation: Institutional Responses to Labour Scarcity in the Central African Copperbelt” Dácil Juif and Ewout Frankema
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, Wageninge... Read More
Article Summary: “The failure of ancient Greek growth: institutions, culture and energy cost” George Tridimas
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 ... Read More
Article Summary: “Taxonomic Definitions in Social Science” Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Summary of Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2018) ‘Taxonomic Definitions in Social Science, with Firms, Markets and Institutions as Case Studies’, Journal of Institutional Economics, published onli... Read More
Article Summary: “How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies” Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen
Summary of JOIE article “How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies”, by Roberto Ricciuti, University of Verona and CESifo; Anto... Read More
An Update on the 2016 Thomson-Reuters Citation Impact Factor for JOIE
Geoffrey M Hodgson JOIE Editor-in-Chief The previously-announced citation impact factor for JOIE turns out to be incorrect. A much higher corrected figure has now been published. The citation impact f... Read More