Institutional Diversity and Political Economy The Ostroms and Beyond [Hardcover]

Elinor Ostrom, co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics, argued that we should not be limited to the conceptions of order derived from the work of Adam Smith and Thomas Hobbes when studying social order. She maintained that we should not limit ourselves to the theoretical frameworks of The State and The Market. Instead, we need approaches that match the extensive variety of institutional arrangements existent in the world.

In this book, Paul Dragos Aligica discusses some of the most challenging ideas emerging out of the research program on institutional diversity associated with Ostrom and her associates. He outlines a set of new research directions and an original interpretation of the significance and future of this program.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Institutional Diversity, Heterogeneity, and Institutional Theory
Chapter 2: Institutionalism and Polycentricity
Chapter 3: Institutional Mapping and the IAD Framework
Chapter 4: Institutional Resilience and Institutional Theory
Chapter 5: Institutional Design, Ideas, and Predictability
Chapter 6: Institutionalism and Pragmatism
Conclusion
Bibliography

It is a simply fantastic book. Paul Dragos Aligica brought together aspects of our work that I knew about but had not yet linked together in the way that he has. The overwhelming reaction I have had is that he has taken our work many steps into the future. --Elinor Ostrom, 2009 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics

Paul Dragos Aligica's carefully argued and nuanced book is an important contribution to an emerging and exciting research program in the social sciences and social philosophy. Challenging standard assumptions that homogenize and normalize individuals, abstracting away from their many differences, Aligica takes the diversity and heterogeneity of individuals and social groups as his point of departure. His comprehensive interpretation of the Ostroms' path-breaking work relatl£>