Handbook on Institutions and Complexity

Edited by Eric Alston (), Lee J. Alston () and Bernardo Mueller

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Abstract: This innovative Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of complexity theory for understanding institutions. Eminent scholars cover the key tools and concepts of the field, including emergence, networks, ergodicity, and modularity, exploring their contributions to institutional formulation and evolution.

Keywords: Complexity; Complex Systems; Institutions; Institutional Economics; Emergence; Uncertainty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035309719
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 On the complexity of the link between institutions and complexity: an overview

Eric Alston, Lee J. Alston and Bernardo Mueller

Ch 2 Five uncanny rules, results, restrictions, and regularities from complex systems

Bernardo Mueller

Ch 3 Douglass North, new institutional economics, and complexity theory

John B. Davis and Mauro Boianovsky

Ch 4 Rethinking Systems of Survival: Jane Jacobs amplified via complexity theory

Meg Tuszynski and Richard E. Wagner

Ch 5 Institutional dynamics in an economy seen as a complex adaptive system

Miguel Vazquez, Gustavo Andreão and José Maria F.J. da Silveira

Ch 6 Exiting ergodicity

Abigail Devereaux

Ch 7 The coevolution of everything, everywhere, all at once: institutions, culture, and the great enrichment

Bernardo Mueller

Ch 8 Beliefs, institutions and norms in a complex system

Lee J. Alston

Ch 9 Social models and institutional policy: four walks in the dark

Thráinn Eggertsson

Ch 10 Religion, political legitimacy, and complexity

Jared Rubin

Ch 11 Political and economic institutional emergence

Eric Alston

Ch 12 The complex architecture of property rights

Henry E. Smith

Ch 13 The complex world of micro-institutions: the illustrative case of hybrids

Claude Menard

Ch 14 Complex systems interplay: cities and institutions

Bernardo Alves Furtado

Ch 15 Imprisoning complexity in modules

Richard N. Langlois

Ch 16 Economic complexity, institutions, and industrial policy

Renan Sousa and Bernardo Mueller

Ch 17 The challenge of governing complex forest ecosystems: can a polycentric approach help?

Komal Preet Kaur, Varnitha Kurli and Krister Andersson

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