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…
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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…
Article Summary: “What makes prosecutors independent? Analysing the institutional determinants of prosecutorial independence”, Stefan Voigt and Alexander J. Wulf
Summary of JOIE article “What makes prosecutors independent? Analysing the institutional determinants of prosecutorial independence”, by Stefan Voigt (Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany) and Alexander J. Wulf (Institute of Law and Economics, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, and SRH Hochschule Berlin, Berlin, Germany). The full article is available on the JOIE…
Article Summary: “Private Provision of Public Goods via Crowdfunding”, Marek Hudik and Robert Chovanculiak
Summary of JOIE article “Private Provision of Public Goods via Crowdfunding”, by Marek Hudik (Xi’an Jiaotong–Liverpool University, Suzhou, China) and Robert Chovanculiak (Institute of Economic and Social Studies, Bratislava, Slovakia). The full article is available on the JOIE website. In 2011, Highland Park in Michigan was compelled to remove over two-thirds of its streetlights because…