Doing Institutional Analysis: Digging Deeper than Markets and Hierarchies

Elinor Ostrom

Chapter 30 in Handbook of New Institutional Economics, 2008, pp 819-848 from Springer

Abstract: A major problem in understanding institutions relates to the complexity and diversity of contemporary life and the resulting specialization that has occurred within the social sciences. The central aim of the social sciences is to explain human behavior. But what kind of human behavior? Within which kinds of institutional settings?

Keywords: Action Situation; Institutional Arrangement; Institutional Analysis; Urban Water System; Payoff Rule (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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