Institutions and the EconomyISBN: 978-0-7456-4830-9
Paperback
180 pages
September 2011, Polity
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- Clear and concise book that explains how the functioning and shape of the economy depend upon social institutions.
- Reveals the crucial role formal and informal institutions in everyday life play in how the economy works.
- Relates this institutional analysis of the economy to all levels of social life, from the individual, through the actions of firms and governments, to the growth of international trade.
- Part of Polity’s well-respected ‘Economy & Society’ series.