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  • Handbook on Institutions and Complexity

    Edited by Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller ...
    This innovative Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of complexity theory for understanding institutions. Eminent scholars analyse the key tools and concepts of the field, including emergence, networks, ergodicity, and modularity, exploring their contributions to institutional formulation and evolution.Bridging the gap between complexity theory and mainstream economics, ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Institutional and Organizational Analysis

    Concepts and Applications

    by Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston, Bernardo Mueller, Tomas Nonnenmacher ...
    Series series New Approaches to Economic and Social History
    What explains the great variability in economic growth and political development across countries? Institutional and organizational analysis has developed since the 1970s into a powerful toolkit, which argues that institutions and norms rather than geography, culture, or technology are the primary causes of sustainable development. Institutions are rules that recognized authorities create and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell

    by Thomas Y. Lo, Paul K. Chien, Eric H. Anderson, Robert A. Alston, Robert P. Waltzer ...
    Are life and the universe a mindless accident—the blind outworking of cosmic, chemical, and biological evolution? That's the official story many of us were taught somewhere along the way. But what does the science actually say? Drawing on recent discoveries in astronomy, cosmology, chemistry, biology, and paleontology, Evolution and Intelligent Design in a Nutshell shows how the latest scientific ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Just Transitions in a Complex World

    by Mark Swilling ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainable Development
    With transitions to more sustainable ways of living already underway, this book examines how we understand the underlying dynamics of the transitions that are unfolding. Without this understanding, we enter the future in a state of informed bewilderment.Every day we are bombarded by reports about ecosystem breakdown, social conflict, economic stagnation and a crisis of identity. There is mounting ... Read more

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  • The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis

    Edited by Walter W. Powell, Paul J. DiMaggio ...
    Long a fruitful area of scrutiny for students of organizations, the study of institutions is undergoing a renaissance in contemporary social science. This volume offers, for the first time, both often-cited foundation works and the latest writings of scholars associated with the "institutional" approach to organization analysis.In their introduction, the editors discuss points of convergence and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Politics in Time

    History, Institutions, and Social Analysis

    by Paul Pierson ...
    This groundbreaking book represents the most systematic examination to date of the often-invoked but rarely examined declaration that "history matters." Most contemporary social scientists unconsciously take a "snapshot" view of the social world. Yet the meaning of social events or processes is frequently distorted when they are ripped from their temporal context. Paul Pierson argues that placing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Understanding Institutional Diversity

    by Elinor Ostrom ...
    The analysis of how institutions are formed, how they operate and change, and how they influence behavior in society has become a major subject of inquiry in politics, sociology, and economics. A leader in applying game theory to the understanding of institutional analysis, Elinor Ostrom provides in this book a coherent method for undertaking the analysis of diverse economic, political, and social ... Read more

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  • Society and Economy

    Framework and Principles

    by Mark Granovetter ...
    Society and Economy—a work of exceptional ambition by the founder of modern economic sociology—is the first full account of Mark Granovetter’s ideas about the diverse ways in which society and economy are intertwined.The economy is not a sphere separate from other human activities, Granovetter writes. It is deeply embedded in social relations and subject to the same emotions, ideas, and ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Transitions to Sustainable Development

    New Directions in the Study of Long Term Transformative Change

    by John Grin, Jan Rotmans, Johan Schot ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Sustainability Transitions
    Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing ... Read more

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  • The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

    by Giovanna Vertova ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Competition
    The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways in which space has become more important in the global economy ... Read more

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  • Keys to the City

    How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development

    by Michael Storper ...
    Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, looks at why we should consider economic development issues within a regional context--at the level of the city-region--and why city economies develop unequally. Storper ... Read more

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  • An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks

    by Paul Frijters ...
    Why are people loyal? How do groups form and how do they create incentives for their members to abide by group norms? Until now, economics has only been able to partially answer these questions. In this groundbreaking work, Paul Frijters presents a new unified theory of human behaviour. To do so, he incorporates comprehensive yet tractable definitions of love and power, and the dynamics of groups ... Read more

    $44.99 USD