Books in the Economics, Cognition & Society series

This title examines the implications of research in the natural sciences for two important scientific approaches to individual behaviour, the economic/rational choice and the sociological/anthropological.

Explores the implications of integrity for contracts between buyers and sellers and understandings between employers and employees. This book reintroduces morality as a factor for economists, sociologists, psychologists, and political scientists to consider in their efforts to comprehend human behavior.

Provides much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among development and growth economists that successful economic development depends fundamentally on the way societies are organised and governed. They argue that ""good governance"" is a prerequisite to sustained increases in living standards.

Explores the NIE with a critical assessment of its theoretical contributions. This second edition aims to explain and assess some of the major refinements, extensions and useful applications that have been introduced into the body of neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years.