Evolution of Markets and Institutions: A Study of an Emerging EconomyThe new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been developed further by scholars such as Oliver Williamson, Douglas North and their followers, leading to the rich and growing field of the new institutional economics. This branch of economics stresses the importance of institutions in the functioning of free markets, which include elaborately defined and effectively enforced property rights in the presence of transaction costs, large corporate organizations with agency and hierarchical controls, formal contracts, bankruptcy laws, and regulatory institutions. In this timely volume, Murali Patibandla applies some of the precepts of the new institutional economics to India - one of the world's most promising economies. |
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... collective economic welfare of societies (Arrow, 1964). Where does the notion of economic institutions of capitalism become germane? One of the fundamental assumptions of the neoclassical economics is that people participate in economic ...
... collective action are the ones that facilitate free markets to generate material prosperity at large. But there is no theory of this 'thin red line' of fine balance or its optimality, which makes the logic of comparative economics ...
... collective enterprises – rural enterprises and the Township and Village Enterprises. The collective enterprises were not totally private because local government involvement in the provision of production and services allowed the ...
... collective and community based. Membership is not voluntary but all local residents have automatic membership, an institutional arrangement initiated (or imposed) by the government. Unlike the SOEs, which were provided with large sums ...
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Contents
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3 Initial conditions and economic policy reforms | 48 |
4 The direction of structural changes | 88 |
5 Competitive dynamics | 126 |
6 Technological change | 157 |
7 Organizational change | 204 |
8 The evolution of public and private order institutions | 249 |
9 Conclusion | 284 |
Appendices | 294 |
Notes | 305 |
References | 317 |
Index | 330 |
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Evolution of Markets and Institutions: A Study of an Emerging Economy Murali Patibandla No preview available - 2006 |