Traditions under the Institutional Political Economy (IPE) ‘umbrella


 

A FEW COMMENTS :

 

 

Because few requirements have been made in the previous section of this website (-what is IPE-), it is evident to me that several types of  economic analyses may qualify to be IPE analyses, even if they may show many differences in approach and substance or serve to endorse different political stances.

 

Economic analyses elaborated under  research programmes with an Institutional (New and Old), Constitutional,  or Law&Economics orientation may qualify to be so (let aside relevant contributions made by non-economists).

 

Why not making a more restrictive set of criteria-requirements  in order to keep the IPE term for referring to a single perspective only? For example to the original-old  institutional economics perspective?. This could be done, and arguments in favor of such a decision exist, of course.

However, there are also some arguments for not being so restrictive. From an ‘explanatory’ point of view, the collective/political economic decisions several groups of people take, and their consequences, differ so much depending on multiple variables that several and methodologically different explanatory analyses may transmit differentiated pictures of a common and complex social phenomenon, and all may be relevant and instructive, even if they are all methodologically biased as said. Moreover, in the realm of normative social science analyses, normative pluralism is not compatible with technocratic stances since everyone in democratic societies has the right to be in favour or against any proposal for policy action or institutional reform that might come up to the political debate whatever its origin or the scientific status of its authors. Persuasion is a third piece/argument. Persuasion in academic arenas stands longer, I think, when it is based on comparative, well informed and open mind thinking than when it is based on restrictive and selective presentations.

 

 

 

SOME ARTICLES ON THESE ISSUES:

(( See some previous papers by F. Toboso -here- ))

 

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In English :

 

 

Cap 10 en Mercuro, N. and Batie, S. (Ed.),  Alternative Institutional Structures: Evolution and Impact. Routledge

"On institutional individualism as a middle way mode of explanation for approaching organizational Issues”,

F. Toboso

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Revista de Análisis Económico,
vol. 2, Decmber, 2006 (Special Issue).

“Old Organizational Issues from a New Institutional Economics Perspective. Some Introductory Remarks”

F. Toboso

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Cambridge Journal of Economics,
vol. 25, 6, 2001 pp. 765-83.

“Institutional Individualism and Institutional Change: The Search For A Middle Way Mode Of Explanation”

F. Toboso


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European Journal of Law and Economics,
vol. 2, 1, 1995, pp. 63-84.

“Explaining the Process of Change Taking Place in Legal Rules and Social Norms: the Cases of Institutional Economics and New Institutional” Economics.

F. Toboso


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Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics,

vol. 5, 2, 1994, pp. 121-33.

“The Role the Static Maximization Approach Plays in Neoclassical Analyses”

F. Toboso


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In Spanish :

 

 

Cap. 1 del libro Toboso y Arias (Eds.) (2006): Organización de gobiernos y mercados. Análisis de casos desde la Nueva Economía Institucional. PU y UVigo.

“En el ámbito público la clave también está en las instituciones”

F. Toboso y X.C. Arias

Capitulo 1

Problemas del Desarrollo-Revista Latinoamericana de Economía,  num. 37, 146, Jul. – Sept. 2006

“Descentralización Política y Resultados Económicos”

F. Toboso


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Revista Asturiana de Economía, num.32, Enero-Abril, pp. 43-66.

“Algunas claves organizativas del Estado español de las autonomías y sus consecuencias”

F. Toboso

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El Trimestre Económico,
num. 280, oct.-Dic. 2003.

“Nuevas orientaciones en el ámbito de la Nueva Economía Institucional. La incorporación de los aspectos distributivos”

F. Toboso y R. Compés

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Hacienda Pública Española,
num. 143, 4, 1997, pp. 175-92.

“¿En qué se diferencian los enfoques de análisis de la vieja y la nueva economía institucional?”

F. Toboso

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Cuadernos de Economía,
vol. 29,Sept.-Dic. 1996.

“Sobre el enfoque de la elección pública positiva y la economía política constitucional: potencialidades y limitaciones”

F. Toboso

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