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 is available on the JOIE website. The resource curse debate has become a somewhat deadlocked academic conversation. Curse or blessing? Well, it depends. I argue that the way in…
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.
Welcome to the blog of the “Journal of Institutional Economics”
The study of institutions have been a long-standing issue in economics. It was at the core of many significant schools of thought at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th, especially the German Historical School of economics and the American Institutionalism. Though the role and the importance of institutions…