Summary of JOIE article ( 21 September 2022) by Hilton L. Root, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, Arlington, VA, USA. The full article is available on the JOIE website In this article I explore the influence of network design (topology) on the larger organizational structures of the historical regimes of China and…
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Managing repugnance: How core-stigma shapes firm behavior
Summary of JOIE article (22 November 2022) by Erwin Dekker, Mercatus Center at George Mason University, Fairfax, The United States, and Julien Gradoz, Clersé, Université de Lille, Lille, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In the United States, marijuana has been legalized in several states. But many banks, nonetheless, refuse to let entrepreneurs in…
Integrating the exploration-exploitation dilemma and bad institutions to the Austrian theory of destructive entrepreneurship: a new perspective.
Summary of JOIE article (6 January 2023) by Thierry Aimar, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Lorraine, France. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The objective of the article is to show that the integration of the exploration-exploitation dilemma into the Austrian theory adds new fruitful elements to the function of…
Russia as a great power: from 1815 to the present day: Parts I and II
Summary of JOIE articles (Part I – 3 October 2022, Part II – 22 October 2022) by Michael Ellman, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The full two-part article is available on theJOIE website: Part I and Part II The factors contributing to the current Russia-Ukraine war can be better…
Is there an enduring institutional oligopoly in economics?
Summary of JOIE article (16 September 2022) by Mathias Aistleitner, Jakob Kapeller, and Dominik Kronberger, Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE), Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria. The full article is available on the JOIE website. Reflections on the paper “The Authors of Economics Journals Revisited: Evidence from a Large-Scale Replication of Hodgson &…
Environmental economics in Classical Athens
Summary of JOIE article (25 August 2022) by Emmanouil M. L. Economou, George E. Halkos, and Nicholas C. Kyriazis, Department of Economics, University of Thessaly. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In this paper we present a series of environmental policies that were implemented by the city-state of Athens during the Classical…
Partisan politics of bank lending
Summary of JOIE article (18 August 2022) by Vincent Tawiah. The full article authored by Vincent Tawiah, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland, Sivathaasan Nadarajah, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia, Md Samsul Alam and Tom Allen, Leicester Castle Business School, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK…
Beyond Private Property Versus Public Property:
The Solution to Douglass. C. North’s Puzzle Concerning China’s Household Responsibility System Summary of JOIE article (15 October 2021) by Simon Deakin and Gaofeng Meng, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. The full article is available on the JOIE website. The dominant theory of property in economics views property rights as individualised and…
The Dynamic Efficiency of Gifting
Summary of JOIE article (18 August 2022) by Anthony Gill, Department of Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, and Michael D. Thomas, Department of Economics and Finance, Heider College of Business, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebraska. The full article is available on the JOIE website. In Scroogenomics, Joel Waldfogel argues that gifting creates enormous deadweight…
Shortlist for the 2022 Elinor Ostrom Prize
The following articles have made the short-list for this year’s Elinor Ostrom Prize: Peter Grajzl and Peter Murrell, “A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution I: Generating and Interpreting the Estimates“, JOIE 17(1): 1-19 and “A Machine-Learning History of English Caselaw and Legal Ideas Prior to the Industrial Revolution II: Applications“, JOIE 17(2):…