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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784146903321

Autore

Rodriguez Jacob P

Titolo

The cost of institutions [[electronic resource] ] : information and freedom in expanding economies / / Jacob P. Rodriguez, Steven R. Loomis, and Joseph G. Weeres

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

ISBN

1-281-36331-6

9786611363314

0-230-60479-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

LoomisSteven R

WeeresJoseph G. <1939->

Disciplina

330

Soggetti

Institutional economics

Knowledge management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-187) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Sidebars; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Expansion under Uncertainty; 2 The State: An Information Theory; 3 Establishing Direction in Education Production; 4 The Individual and the Collective in Education; 5 Markets: The Logic of Convergence; 6 Market Failure in the Preservation of Liberty; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.