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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.

War Prevention and the Economics of Democracy

Posted on September 21, 2025September 21, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article by Marcel Parent, Agrégé de lettres modernes, posthumously, Antoine Parent, LED, Université Paris 8, Pierre-Charles Pradier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Laurent Gauthier, LED, Université Paris 8. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Jean Jaurès’s The New Army (1911) is often seen as a dense, sprawling, and outdated work of socialist…

Reimagining IP Rights for the Generative AI Era: A Polycentric Governance Approach

Posted on August 5, 2025August 5, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article by Christos A. Makridis, W.P. Carey School, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, and Joshua Ammons, Stephenson Institute for Classical Liberalism, Wabash College, Crawfordsville, IN, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Generative AI models like large language models (LLMs) are transforming content creation, but in ways that the…

Elinor Ostrom Prize 2025 Shortlist

Posted on June 8, 2025June 8, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

About the Prize: The Elinor Ostrom Prize has been established in honour of the late Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom (1933-2012), who was an enormously creative scholar and an outstanding pioneer of the interdisciplinary field of institutional research.*  Her most famous work focused on the problem of managing and maintaining common-pool resources, but she also applied her ideas to problems of political governance…

Understanding Masahiko Aoki’s Comparative Institutional Analysis

Posted on May 22, 2025May 22, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article by Kazuhiro S. Taniguchi, Faculty of Business and Commerce, Keio University, Tokyo. The full article is available on the JOIE website. This paper examines the core features of Masahiko Aoki’s Comparative Institutional Analysis (CIA) by tracing its methodological foundations and conceptualization of institutions within his intellectual trajectory. Aoki (1938–2015) dedicated his career…

The complementarity between automation and flexible labor contracts

Posted on May 15, 2025May 15, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article by Silvio Traverso (University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy), Massimiliano Vatiero (University of Trento, Italy, and Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)  and Enrico Zaninotto (University of Trento, and FBK-IRVAPP-Trento, Italy). The full article is available on the JOIE website. Since the 2000s, numerous European countries have implemented market-oriented reforms aimed at increasing external…

Transactions and Legal Institutionalism: Part II

Posted on May 14, 2025May 14, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (24 April 2025) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson International Management, Loughborough University London, London, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Contracts, money, and applications Part I of this article reviews major differences in definitions by six leading authors of the transaction concept (Hodgson, 2025). Part II develops toward a…

Transactions and Legal Institutionalism: Part I

Posted on April 22, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (22 April 2025) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson International Management, Loughborough University London, London, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Prominent scholars have complained of confusion in the literature over what transactions are, and how their costs are measured. This two-part article explores this topic and suggests an alternative…

Toward polycentric federalism: Assessing federal institutional design in multiethnic African states

Posted on April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE Article by Kaleb Demerew West Texas A&M University, USA, Samson Faboye, University of Johannesburg, South Africa and Sampson Edodi, University of Abuja, Nigeria. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Federalism has long been proposed as a governance solution for multiethnic African states struggling with identity-based conflict. Yet, despite constitutional…

Inclusive national innovation systems: rethinking institutions in the light of inclusion imperatives

Posted on April 13, 2025April 13, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (25 February 2025) by Vanessa Casadella and Sofiane Tahi, LEFMI Lab., Picardie Jules Verne University, Amiens, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Since the 1990s, national innovation systems (NIS) have been the focus of a large body of literature highlighting the institutional performance of economies and the…

Formal and Informal Institutions: Some Problems of Meaning, Impact, and Interaction’ – A Summary

Posted on February 16, 2025February 16, 2025 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (10 February 2025) by Geoffrey M. Hodgson International Management, Loughborough University London, London, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Institutional research distinguishes between ‘formal’ and ‘informal’ institutions. Largely through the work of Douglass North, this terminology took off in the 1990s. North often associated ‘formal institutions’ with rules…

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