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February 16, 2024

New Institutional Economics (NIE) is an economic perspective that attempts to extend economics by focusing on the institutions (that is to say the social and legal norms and rules) that underlie economic activity and with analysis beyond earlier institutional economics and neoclassical economics.[1] Unlike neoclassical economics, it also considers the role of culture and classical political economy in economic development.[2]

The NIE assume that individuals are rational and that they seek to maximize their preferences, but that they also have cognitive limitations, lack complete information and have difficulties monitoring and enforcing agreements. As a result, institutions form in large part as an effective way to deal with transaction costs.[3]

NIE rejects that the state is a neutral actor (rather, it can hinder or facilitate effective institutions), that there are zero transaction costs, and that actors have fixed preferences.[4]

Overview edit

It has its roots in two articles by Ronald Coase, "The Nature of the Firm" (1937) and "The Problem of Social Cost" (1960). In the latter, the Coase theorem (as it was subsequently termed) maintains that without transaction costs, alternative property right assignments can equivalently internalize conflicts and externalities. Thus, comparative institutional analysis arising from such assignments is required to make recommendations about efficient internalization of externalities and institutional design, including Law and Economics.

Analyses are now built on a more complex set of methodological principles and criteria. They work within a modified neoclassical framework in considering both efficiency and distribution issues, in contrast to "traditional", "old" or "original" institutional economics, which is critical of mainstream neoclassical economics.[5]

The term 'new institutional economics' was coined by Oliver Williamson in 1975.[6][7]

Among the many aspects in current analyses are organizational arrangements (such as the boundary of the firm), property rights,[8]transaction costs,[9] credible commitments, modes of governance, persuasive abilities, social norms, ideological values, decisive perceptions, gained control, enforcement mechanism, asset specificity, human assets, social capital, asymmetric information, strategic behavior, bounded rationality, opportunism, adverse selection, moral hazard, contractual safeguards, surrounding uncertainty, monitoring costs, incentives to collude, hierarchical structures, and bargaining strength.

Major scholars associated with the subject include Masahiko Aoki, Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz,[10][11] Steven N. S. Cheung,[12][13] Avner Greif, Yoram Barzel, Claude Ménard (economist), Daron Acemoglu, and four Nobel laureates—Ronald Coase,[14][15] Douglass North,[16][17] Elinor Ostrom,[18] and Oliver Williamson.[19][20][21] A convergence of such researchers resulted in founding the Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics (formerly the International Society for New Institutional Economics) in 1997.[22] The NIE has influenced scholars outside of economics, including historical institutionalism, influential works on U.S. Congress (e.g. Kenneth Shepsle, Barry Weingast), international cooperation (e.g. Robert Keohane, Barbara Koremenos), and the establishment and persistence of electoral systems (e.g. Adam Przeworski).[23] Robert Keohane was influenced by NIE, resulting in his influential 1984 work of International Relations, After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy.[24]

Herbert A. Simon criticized NIE for solely explaining organizations through market mechanisms and concepts drawn from neoclassical economics.[25] He argued that this led to "seriously incomplete" understandings of organizations.[25] Jack Knight and Terry Moe have criticized the functionalist components of NIE, arguing that NIE misses the coercion and power politics involved in establishing and maintaining institutions.[26][27][28]

Institutional levels edit

Although no single, universally accepted set of definitions has been developed, most scholars doing research under the methodological principles and criteria follow Douglass North's demarcation between institutions and organizations. Institutions are the "rules of the game", both the formal legal rules and the informal social norms that govern individual behavior and structure social interactions (institutional frameworks).

Organizations, by contrast, are those groups of people and the governance arrangements that they create to co-ordinate their team action against other teams performing also as organizations. To enhance their chance of survival, actions taken by organizations attempt to acquire skill sets that offer the highest return on objective goals, such as profit maximization or voter turnout.[29] Firms, universities, clubs, medical associations, and unions are some examples.

Oliver Williamson characterizes four levels of social analysis. The first concerns itself with social theory, specifically the level of embeddedness and informal rules. The second is focused on the institutional environment and formal rules. It uses the economics of property rights and positive political theory. The third focuses on governance and the interactions of actors within transaction cost economics, "the play of the game". Williamson gives the example of contracts between groups to explain it. Finally, the fourth is governed by neoclassical economics, it is the allocation of resources and employment. New Institutional Economics is focused on levels two and three.[30]

Because some institutional frameworks are realities always "nested" inside other broader institutional frameworks, the clear demarcation is always blurred. A case in point is a university. When the average quality of its teaching services must be evaluated, for example, a university may be approached as an organization with its people, physical capital, the general governing rules common to all that were passed by its governing bodies etc. However, if the task consists of evaluating people's performance in a specific teaching department, for example, along with their own internal formal and informal rules, it, as a whole, enters the picture as an institution. General rules, then, form part of the broader institutional framework influencing the people's performance at the said teaching department.

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Malcolm Rutherford (2001). "Institutional Economics: Then and Now," Journal of Economic Perspectives, 15(3), pp. 185-90 (173-194).
    L. J. Alston, (2008). "new institutional economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
  2. ^ Maridal, J. Haavard (2013). "Cultural impact on national economic growth". The Journal of Socio-Economics. 47: 136–146. doi:10.1016/j.socec.2012.08.002.
  3. ^ Powell, Walter W.; DiMaggio, Paul J. (1991). The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis. University of Chicago Press. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226185941.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-226-67709-5.
  4. ^ North, Douglass Cecil (1981). "6". Structure and Change in Economic History. Norton. ISBN 978-0-393-01478-5.
  5. ^ Warren Samuels ([1987] 2008), "institutional economics" The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Abstract A scholarly journal particularly featuring traditional institutional economics is the Journal of Economic Issues; see abstract links to 2008. Scholarly journals particularly featuring the new institutional economics include the Journal of Law Economics and Organization, the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, and the Journal of Law and Economics.
  6. ^ Oliver E. Williamson (1975). Markets and Hierarchies, Analysis and Antitrust Implications: A Study in the Economics of Internal Organization.
  7. ^ Coase, Ronald (2002), Brousseau, Eric; Glachant, Jean-Michel (eds.), "The New Institutional Economics", The Economics of Contracts: Theories and Applications, Cambridge University Press, pp. 45–48, doi:10.1017/cbo9780511613807.002, ISBN 978-0-521-89313-8
  8. ^ Dean Lueck (2008). "property law, economics and," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
  9. ^ M. Klaes (2008). "transaction costs, history of," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract.
  10. ^ Harold Demsetz (1967). "Toward a Theory of Property Rights," American Economic Review, 57(2), pp. 347-359[dead link].
  11. ^ Harold Demsetz (1969) "Information and Efficiency: Another Viewpoint," Journal of Law and Economics, 12(1), pp. [1][dead link].
  12. ^ Steven N. S. Cheung (1970). "The Structure of a Contract and the Theory of a Non-Exclusive Resource," Journal of Law and Economics, 13(1), pp. 49-70.
  13. ^ S. N. S. Cheung (1973). "The Fable of the Bees: An Economic Investigation," Journal of Law and Economics, 16(1), pp. 11-33.
  14. ^ Ronald Coase (1998). "The New Institutional Economics," American Economic Review, 88(2), pp. 72-74.
  15. ^ R. H. Coase (1991). "The Institutional Structure of Production," Nobel Prize Lecture PDF, reprinted in 1992, American Economic Review, 82(4), pp. 713-719.
  16. ^ Douglass C. North (1990). Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance, Cambridge University Press.
  17. ^ Douglass C. North (1995). "The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development," in The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development, J. Harriss, J. Hunter, and C. M. Lewis, ed., pp. 17-26.
  18. ^ Elinor Ostrom (2005). "Doing Institutional Analysis: Digging Deeper than Markets and Hierarchies," Handbook of New Institutional Economics, C. Ménard and M. Shirley, eds. Handbook of New Institutional Economics, pp. 819-848. Springer.
  19. ^ Oliver E. Williamson (2000). "The New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead," Journal of Economic Literature, 38(3), pp. 595-613 May 11, 2011, at the Wayback Machine (press +).Dzionek-Kozłowska, Joanna; Matera, Rafał (October 2015). "New Institutional Economics' Perspective on Wealth and Poverty of Nations. Concise Review and General Remarks on Acemoglu and Robinson's Concept". Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University - Economics. 62 (1): 11–18. doi:10.1515/aicue-2015-0032.
  20. ^ Keefer, Philip; Knack, Stephen (2005). "Social capital, social norms and the New Institutional Economics". Handbook of New Institutional Economics. pp. 700–725.
  21. ^ "Introductory Reading List: New Institutional Economics". Ronald Coase Institute.
  22. ^ "History". Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics. Retrieved 3 February 2016.
  23. ^ Thelen, Kathleen (2004). How Institutions Evolve: The Political Economy of Skills in Germany, Britain, the United States, and Japan. Cambridge University Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-521-54674-4.
  24. ^ Keohane, Robert O. (2020). "Understanding Multilateral Institutions in Easy and Hard Times". Annual Review of Political Science. 23 (1): 1–18. doi:10.1146/annurev-polisci-050918-042625. ISSN 1094-2939.
  25. ^ a b Simon, Herbert A (1991-05-01). "Organizations and Markets". Journal of Economic Perspectives. 5 (2): 25–44. doi:10.1257/jep.5.2.25. ISSN 0895-3309.
  26. ^ Moe, Terry M. (2005). "Power and Political Institutions". Perspectives on Politics. 3 (2). doi:10.1017/s1537592705050176. ISSN 1537-5927. S2CID 39072417.
  27. ^ Moe, T. M. (1990). "Political Institutions: The Neglected Side of the Story". Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization. 6: 213–253. doi:10.1093/jleo/6.special_issue.213. ISSN 8756-6222.
  28. ^ Knight, Jack (1992). Institutions and Social Conflict. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-42189-8.
  29. ^ North, Douglass C. "Transaction Costs, institutions, and Economic Performance." International Center for Economic Growth (n.d.): n. pag. Khousachonine.ucoz.com. Web.
  30. ^ Williamson, Oliver (2000). "The 'New Institutional Economics: Taking Stock, Looking Ahead". Journal of Economic Literature. 38 (3): 595–613. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.128.7824. doi:10.1257/jel.38.3.595.

Further reading edit

  • Eggertsson, Thráinn (2005). Imperfect Institutions: Possibilities and Limits of Reform. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472114566.
  • Furubotn, Eirik G.; Richter, Rudolf (2005). Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics (2nd ed.). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0472030255.

External links edit

 
Wikiquote has quotations related to New institutional economics.
  • SIOE - Society for Institutional & Organizational Economics, formerly the International Society for New Institutional Economics.
  • - European School on New Institutional Economics.
  • ASNIE - Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics.
  • Introductory Reading List in New Institutional Economics - The Ronald Coase Institute
  • - Founded by Mancur Olson, University of Maryland.
  • Contracting and Organizations Research Center University of Missouri
  • Economics and Institutions WEBSITE - by prof. F. Toboso, University of Valencia, Spain.
  • "The Rise of New Institutional Economics and Assessment its Contributions to the Post Washington Consensus"

February 16, 2024
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New Institutional Economics NIE is an economic perspective that attempts to extend economics by focusing on the institutions that is to say the social and legal norms and rules that underlie economic activity and with analysis beyond earlier institutional economics and neoclassical economics 1 Unlike neoclassical economics it also considers the role of culture and classical political economy in economic development 2 The NIE assume that individuals are rational and that they seek to maximize their preferences but that they also have cognitive limitations lack complete information and have difficulties monitoring and enforcing agreements As a result institutions form in large part as an effective way to deal with transaction costs 3 NIE rejects that the state is a neutral actor rather it can hinder or facilitate effective institutions that there are zero transaction costs and that actors have fixed preferences 4 Contents 1 Overview 2 Institutional levels 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External linksOverview editIt has its roots in two articles by Ronald Coase The Nature of the Firm 1937 and The Problem of Social Cost 1960 In the latter the Coase theorem as it was subsequently termed maintains that without transaction costs alternative property right assignments can equivalently internalize conflicts and externalities Thus comparative institutional analysis arising from such assignments is required to make recommendations about efficient internalization of externalities and institutional design including Law and Economics Analyses are now built on a more complex set of methodological principles and criteria They work within a modified neoclassical framework in considering both efficiency and distribution issues in contrast to traditional old or original institutional economics which is critical of mainstream neoclassical economics 5 The term new institutional economics was coined by Oliver Williamson in 1975 6 7 Among the many aspects in current analyses are organizational arrangements such as the boundary of the firm property rights 8 transaction costs 9 credible commitments modes of governance persuasive abilities social norms ideological values decisive perceptions gained control enforcement mechanism asset specificity human assets social capital asymmetric information strategic behavior bounded rationality opportunism adverse selection moral hazard contractual safeguards surrounding uncertainty monitoring costs incentives to collude hierarchical structures and bargaining strength Major scholars associated with the subject include Masahiko Aoki Armen Alchian Harold Demsetz 10 11 Steven N S Cheung 12 13 Avner Greif Yoram Barzel Claude Menard economist Daron Acemoglu and four Nobel laureates Ronald Coase 14 15 Douglass North 16 17 Elinor Ostrom 18 and Oliver Williamson 19 20 21 A convergence of such researchers resulted in founding the Society for Institutional amp Organizational Economics formerly the International Society for New Institutional Economics in 1997 22 The NIE has influenced scholars outside of economics including historical institutionalism influential works on U S Congress e g Kenneth Shepsle Barry Weingast international cooperation e g Robert Keohane Barbara Koremenos and the establishment and persistence of electoral systems e g Adam Przeworski 23 Robert Keohane was influenced by NIE resulting in his influential 1984 work of International Relations After Hegemony Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy 24 Herbert A Simon criticized NIE for solely explaining organizations through market mechanisms and concepts drawn from neoclassical economics 25 He argued that this led to seriously incomplete understandings of organizations 25 Jack Knight and Terry Moe have criticized the functionalist components of NIE arguing that NIE misses the coercion and power politics involved in establishing and maintaining institutions 26 27 28 Institutional levels editAlthough no single universally accepted set of definitions has been developed most scholars doing research under the methodological principles and criteria follow Douglass North s demarcation between institutions and organizations Institutions are the rules of the game both the formal legal rules and the informal social norms that govern individual behavior and structure social interactions institutional frameworks Organizations by contrast are those groups of people and the governance arrangements that they create to co ordinate their team action against other teams performing also as organizations To enhance their chance of survival actions taken by organizations attempt to acquire skill sets that offer the highest return on objective goals such as profit maximization or voter turnout 29 Firms universities clubs medical associations and unions are some examples Oliver Williamson characterizes four levels of social analysis The first concerns itself with social theory specifically the level of embeddedness and informal rules The second is focused on the institutional environment and formal rules It uses the economics of property rights and positive political theory The third focuses on governance and the interactions of actors within transaction cost economics the play of the game Williamson gives the example of contracts between groups to explain it Finally the fourth is governed by neoclassical economics it is the allocation of resources and employment New Institutional Economics is focused on levels two and three 30 Because some institutional frameworks are realities always nested inside other broader institutional frameworks the clear demarcation is always blurred A case in point is a university When the average quality of its teaching services must be evaluated for example a university may be approached as an organization with its people physical capital the general governing rules common to all that were passed by its governing bodies etc However if the task consists of evaluating people s performance in a specific teaching department for example along with their own internal formal and informal rules it as a whole enters the picture as an institution General rules then form part of the broader institutional framework influencing the people s performance at the said teaching department See also editHorizontal integration Public choice Vertical integrationReferences edit Malcolm Rutherford 2001 Institutional Economics Then and Now Journal of Economic Perspectives 15 3 pp 185 90 173 194 L J Alston 2008 new institutional economics The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd Edition Abstract Maridal J Haavard 2013 Cultural impact on national economic growth The Journal of Socio Economics 47 136 146 doi 10 1016 j socec 2012 08 002 Powell Walter W DiMaggio Paul J 1991 The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis University of Chicago Press doi 10 7208 chicago 9780226185941 001 0001 ISBN 978 0 226 67709 5 North Douglass Cecil 1981 6 Structure and Change in Economic History Norton ISBN 978 0 393 01478 5 Warren Samuels 1987 2008 institutional economics The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Abstract A scholarly journal particularly featuring traditional institutional economics is the Journal of Economic Issues see abstract links to 2008 Scholarly journals particularly featuring the new institutional economics include the Journal of Law Economics and Organization the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization and the Journal of Law and Economics Oliver E Williamson 1975 Markets and Hierarchies Analysis and Antitrust Implications A Study in the Economics of Internal Organization Coase Ronald 2002 Brousseau Eric Glachant Jean Michel eds The New Institutional Economics The Economics of Contracts Theories and Applications Cambridge University Press pp 45 48 doi 10 1017 cbo9780511613807 002 ISBN 978 0 521 89313 8 Dean Lueck 2008 property law economics and The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd Edition Abstract M Klaes 2008 transaction costs history of The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics 2nd Edition Abstract Harold Demsetz 1967 Toward a Theory of Property Rights American Economic Review 57 2 pp 347 359 dead link Harold Demsetz 1969 Information and Efficiency Another Viewpoint Journal of Law and Economics 12 1 pp 1 dead link Steven N S Cheung 1970 The Structure of a Contract and the Theory of a Non Exclusive Resource Journal of Law and Economics 13 1 pp 49 70 S N S Cheung 1973 The Fable of the Bees An Economic Investigation Journal of Law and Economics 16 1 pp 11 33 Ronald Coase 1998 The New Institutional Economics American Economic Review 88 2 pp 72 74 R H Coase 1991 The Institutional Structure of Production Nobel Prize Lecture PDF reprinted in 1992 American Economic Review 82 4 pp 713 719 Douglass C North 1990 Institutions Institutional Change and Economic Performance Cambridge University Press Douglass C North 1995 The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development in The New Institutional Economics and Third World Development J Harriss J Hunter and C M Lewis ed pp 17 26 Elinor Ostrom 2005 Doing Institutional Analysis Digging Deeper than Markets and Hierarchies Handbook of New Institutional Economics C Menard and M Shirley eds Handbook of New Institutional Economics pp 819 848 Springer Oliver E Williamson 2000 The New Institutional Economics Taking Stock Looking Ahead Journal of Economic Literature 38 3 pp 595 613 Archived May 11 2011 at the Wayback Machine press Dzionek Kozlowska Joanna Matera Rafal October 2015 New Institutional Economics Perspective on Wealth and Poverty of Nations Concise Review and General Remarks on Acemoglu and Robinson s Concept Annals of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Economics 62 1 11 18 doi 10 1515 aicue 2015 0032 Keefer Philip Knack Stephen 2005 Social capital social norms and the New Institutional Economics Handbook of New Institutional Economics pp 700 725 Introductory Reading List New Institutional Economics Ronald Coase Institute History Society for Institutional amp Organizational Economics Retrieved 3 February 2016 Thelen Kathleen 2004 How Institutions Evolve The Political Economy of Skills in Germany Britain the United States and Japan Cambridge University Press pp 24 25 ISBN 978 0 521 54674 4 Keohane Robert O 2020 Understanding Multilateral Institutions in Easy and Hard Times Annual Review of Political Science 23 1 1 18 doi 10 1146 annurev polisci 050918 042625 ISSN 1094 2939 a b Simon Herbert A 1991 05 01 Organizations and Markets Journal of Economic Perspectives 5 2 25 44 doi 10 1257 jep 5 2 25 ISSN 0895 3309 Moe Terry M 2005 Power and Political Institutions Perspectives on Politics 3 2 doi 10 1017 s1537592705050176 ISSN 1537 5927 S2CID 39072417 Moe T M 1990 Political Institutions The Neglected Side of the Story Journal of Law Economics and Organization 6 213 253 doi 10 1093 jleo 6 special issue 213 ISSN 8756 6222 Knight Jack 1992 Institutions and Social Conflict Cambridge University Press ISBN 978 0 521 42189 8 North Douglass C Transaction Costs institutions and Economic Performance International Center for Economic Growth n d n pag Khousachonine ucoz com Web Williamson Oliver 2000 The New Institutional Economics Taking Stock Looking Ahead Journal of Economic Literature 38 3 595 613 CiteSeerX 10 1 1 128 7824 doi 10 1257 jel 38 3 595 Further reading editEggertsson Thrainn 2005 Imperfect Institutions Possibilities and Limits of Reform Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press ISBN 978 0472114566 Furubotn Eirik G Richter Rudolf 2005 Institutions and Economic Theory The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics 2nd ed Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press ISBN 978 0472030255 External links edit nbsp Wikiquote has quotations related to New institutional economics SIOE Society for Institutional amp Organizational Economics formerly the International Society for New Institutional Economics ESNIE European School on New Institutional Economics ASNIE Austrian Society for New Institutional Economics Introductory Reading List in New Institutional Economics The Ronald Coase Institute IRIS Center Founded by Mancur Olson University of Maryland Contracting and Organizations Research Center University of Missouri Economics and Institutions WEBSITE by prof F Toboso University of Valencia Spain The Rise of New Institutional Economics and Assessment its Contributions to the Post Washington Consensus Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title New institutional economics amp oldid 1183539031, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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