The following is for students studying Old and New Institutional Economics.
Please find attached files concerning my notes to lectures largely drawn from course textbooks, course reader and journal articles listed in 'Course Outline' (Week 1).
If you are making references to any lecture materials, please email me to ensure proper citation. Plagiarism is a serious offence, and is avoidable.
If there are any problems, please contact me:
email: sanghera@online.nsk.su ; balihar_sanghera@yahoo.co.uk
Cheers, Balihar Sanghera
Links to my other courses
Economics of the Firm
Cultural and Moral Economy
Market Society: Meanings, Emdedding and Structures
Sociology of Consumption
Introduction to the Philosophy of Social Research
Qualitative Research Methods
State and Society
Link to the Bishkek International Sociology Conference, 17-21 June, American University - Central Asia, sponsored by Civic Education Project Central Asia & Mongolia and American University - Central Asia
Links to my guest lectures and conference papers
Lectures at the University of Ulan-Ude, Russian Federation
'Neutrality of Markets and Ethnicity - special references to embedding, abstractions and petty capital', CEP / Canadian Studies Minority Discourses Conference, Ustron, Poland
'After the cultural, a return to the moral economy', CEP Critical Sociology Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia
'Sociology, imperialism and educational capital: the need to become a social scientist', CEP Sociology Round Table in Kaunas, Lithuania
Links to Civic Education Project (CEP) websites (for details of student conferences and other educational opportunities)
CEP Russia (important information on student conferences)
CEP (interesting information on educational and employment opportunities)
A link to social science websites
Social Science Websites - sites for social theory, online papers, journals, universities, research bodies and resources sites
Week 1: Course Outline
Introduction
Week 2: Human Behaviour and Values
Week 3: Institutions - Individual Rules
Seminar: Katya Avershina - A Survey of Old and New Institutional Economics
Seminar: Eugene Zakharov - A Survey of Old and New Institutional Economics
Week 4: Institutional Systems and Social Order
Seminar: Daria Pishchik - Menger's evolutionary and Commons' collective action approach to institutions
Seminar: Artem Shvets - Menger's evolutionary and Commons' collective action approach to institutions
Week 5: Property Rights - the foundation of capitalism
Week 6: Dynamics of Competition
Seminar: Tanya Novohatskaya - Institutions and markets in a dynamic world
Week 7: Essays
Test
Week 8: Organisations
Seminar: Kirill Barsoukov - Firm as a social institution
Week 9: Government
Week 10-11: Evolution of Institutions
Economic Methodology - see section 'Economics as a discipline'
Seminar: Maria Musatova and Andrey Boulavsky - A Realist Theory for Economics
Week 12: Economic Methodology - Critical Realism
See also the lecture notes for Week 10-11 'Economic Methodology - see section 'Quantitative Methods''
Tony Lawson's article 'Why are so many Economists so Opposed to Methodology?'
Week 13: Examination
Second Examination
MSc Thesis on a Critique of Williamson's 'Transaction Cost Economics'
