Article Summary: “Institutional development, transaction costs and economic growth: evidence from a cross-country investigation” Mitja Kovač and Rok Spruk

Posted on March 18, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

Summary of JOIE article (Volume 12(1) 2016) by Mitja Kovač, Associate Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana and Rok Spruk, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Economics, University of ... Read More

Article Summary: “Conspicuous Consumption, Sexual Selection, and Social Institutions: The Darwinian Dynamic Thorstein Veblen Missed,” Jon D. Wisman

Posted on March 5, 2019March 18, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on March 5, 2019March 5, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on February 21, 2019February 21, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on February 17, 2019February 17, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on February 12, 2019March 18, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Posted on February 11, 2019March 18, 2019 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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

Welcome to the blog of the “Journal of Institutional Economics”

Posted on June 12, 2017June 13, 2017 by Nikhilesh Sinha

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, espec... Read More