Institutional Economics Social Order and Public Policy

This book provides an accessible introduction to the burgeoning discipline of institutional economics, and to the central issues of private property rights and their competitive use. The book develops the issues from fundamental premises about human cognition and motivation. This text breaks new ground in that it summarises the contemporary institutional literature in a cohesive manner. The book will not only be welcomed by the student of economics but will also be essential to jurists, business managers, anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, social historians and moral philosophers.