The cost of institutions [[electronic resource] ] : information and freedom in expanding economies / / Jacob P. Rodriguez, Steven R. Loomis, and Joseph G. Weeres
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Rodriguez Jacob P
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| Titolo: |
The cost of institutions [[electronic resource] ] : information and freedom in expanding economies / / Jacob P. Rodriguez, Steven R. Loomis, and Joseph G. Weeres
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330 |
| Soggetto topico: | Institutional economics |
| Knowledge management | |
| Altri autori: |
LoomisSteven R
WeeresJoseph G. <1939->
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| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The cost of institutions |
| ISBN: | 1-281-36331-6 |
| 9786611363314 | |
| 0-230-60479-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910784146903321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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