Behaviors and Institutions
Friday, May 22, 2015
Doug Allen
Simon Fraser University
Recognizing and Solving Institutional Puzzles
Abstract
- a. Efficiency as a constraint on the economist.
- b. Putting preferences in the back seat ... where they belong.
- c. The Necessity of Institutional detail.
- d. Coase, and the source of institutional explanations
- e. Identification using institutional detail.
"Chapter 1" from Allen, D.W. The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012).
Allen, D.W. Economic Principles: Seven Ideas for Thinking ...About Almost Anything. (Vancouver: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2014).