Sufficient Reason : : Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions / / Daniel W. Bromley.

In the standard analysis of economic institutions--which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations)--economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley chal...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2006
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.) :; 11 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Prelude
  • Chapter One. Prospective Volition
  • Chapter Two. The Task at Hand
  • Part One. On Economic Institutions
  • Chapter Three. Understanding Institutions
  • Chapter Four. The Content of Institutions
  • Chapter Five. Institutional Change
  • Part Two. Volitional Pragmatism
  • Chapter Six. Fixing Belief
  • Chapter Seven. Explaining
  • Chapter Eight. Prescribing and Predicting
  • Chapter Nine. Volitional Pragmatism
  • Part Three. Volitional Pragmatism at Work
  • Chapter Ten. Thinking as a Pragmatist
  • Chapter Eleven. Volitional Pragmatism and Explanation
  • Chapter Twelve. Volitional Pragmatism and the Evolution of Institutions
  • Chapter Thirteen. Volitional Pragmatism and the Economic Regulations
  • Chapter Fourteen. Sufficient Reason
  • Bibliography
  • Index