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Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
A. Allan Schmid
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Description for Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
Hardcover. Investigates 'the rules of the game,' how institutions - both formal and informal - affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: KCA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 259 x 186 x 29. Weight in Grams: 850.
Allan Schmid's innovative text, Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics, investigates "the rules of the game," how institutions--both formal and informal--affect these rules, and how these rules are changed to serve competing interests. This text addresses both formal and informal institutions and the impact of alternative institutions, as well as institutional change and evolution. With its broad applications and numerous practice and discussion questions, this book will be appealing not only to students of economics, but also to those studying sociology, law, and political science.
- Addresses formal and informal institutions, the impact of alternative institutions, and institutional change and ... Read more
- Presents a framework open to changing preferences, bounded rationality, and evolution.
- Explains how to form empirically testable hypotheses using experiments, case studies, and econometrics.
- Includes numerous practice and discussion questions.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United States
ISBN
9781405113557
SKU
V9781405113557
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Ref
99-50
About A. Allan Schmid
A. Allan Schmid is University Distinguished Professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Michigan State University. He is the author of eight books, including Property, Power, and Public Choice (second edition, 1987), and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Political Economy Approach (1989).
Reviews for Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
“A refreshing alternative to outdated microeconomics texts that endlessly parrot supply and demand, this book offers an analytically sharp, comprehensible, yet accessible guide to the new approaches that are rapidly transforming economics as a discipline.” Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts “Right from the beginning, Schmid's magnificent volume has individuals interacting with historically-given institutions. ... Read more