Summary of the JOIE article (24 January 2022) by Daniil Frolov, Faculty of Economics and Management, Volgograd State Technical University, Russia. The full article is available on the JOIE website. National governments are the main actors enforcing preventative measures to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on top-down policies and sanctions. Now it is becoming more…
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Article Summary: “Social and scientific disorder as epistemic phenomena, or the consequences of government dietary guidelines” Scott Scheall, William N. Butos and Thomas McQuade
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: “How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies” Roberto Ricciuti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen
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…
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…