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 paper, newly available online in the Journal of Institutional Economics, I develop a complete, coherent theory of how institutions obtain their hold over our behaviour. Drawing…
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.
Social and scientific disorder as epistemic phenomena, or the consequences of government dietary guidelines
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
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
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
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”
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…
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 factors published by Thomson-Reuters are one of the most important indicators of the visibility and engagement of a scientific journal. There are two-year and five-year citation…
Article summary: “Money and its institutional substitutes: the role of exchange institutions in human cooperation”, Cameron Harwick
Summary of JOIE article “Money and its institutional substitutes: the role of exchange institutions in human cooperation”, by Cameron Harwick (George Mason University, USA). The full article is available on the JOIE website. The question “why does money exist?” has a very long pedigree. But it also has no answer without a background framing: “as…
Article summary: “Adapting as usual: integrative and segregative institutions shaping adaptation to climate change in local public administrations”
Summary of JOIE article “Adapting as usual: integrative and segregative institutions shaping adaptation to climate change in local public administrations”, by Matteo Roggero (Resource Economics Group, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany) and Andreas Thiel (International Agricultural Policy and Environmental Governance, University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany). The full article is available on the JOIE website….
Article Summary: “Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution”, Alberto Chong and Mark Gradstein
Summary of JOIE article “Imposed Institutions and Preferences for Redistribution”, by Alberto Chong (Georgia State University, USA) and Mark Gradstein (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel). The full article is available on the JOIE website. In two contrasting classical views – Neoclassical, and Marxist and Weberian traditions – it is strongly argued that institutional…