Handbook of New Institutional Economics
This Open Access Handbook of New Institutional Economics (NIE) is a comprehensive reference work providing a unique and timely overview of recent developments and broad orientations in institutional analysis. This second edition has been thoroughly updated and extended, including 23 new chapters on political and legal institutions, organizations and contracts, regulation, culture, methodology and institutional change.
Chapters have been written by highly respected scientists in the field, among them Ronald Coase, Douglass North, Elinor Ostrom, Oliver Williamson and Roger Myerson, all Nobel recipients, as well as by numerous other foremost NIE specialists at the frontier of NIE research. This Handbook gives students and young researchers an introduction to the topic and offers all scholars a reference book for their research. It will also be of interest to economists, political scientists, legal scholars, management specialists, sociologists, and others wishing to learn more about these important subjects and gain insight into progress made by institutionalists from other disciplines.
Open access made possible through a generous donation in honor of the Ronald Coase Institute.
Claude Ménard is Professor of Economics (Emeritus) at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne (University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, France). He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and authored several books, most recently Network Infrastructures: Technology Meets Institutions (with Rolf Kunneke and John Groenewegen) and Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics (with Mary Shirley).
Mary M. Shirley is President of the Ronald Coase Institute (USA). She has a PhD in economics, worked for over 20 years in World Bank research, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles and books, including Advanced Introduction to New Institutional Economics (with Claude Ménard) and Institutions and Development.