2008 BOOK Batie, S. and Mercuro, N. (Eds.)(2008) ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES. EVOLUTION AND IMPACT Book available at : Routledge 2008	2007 Workshop: VARIOUS APPROACHES TO ASSESSING THE EVOLUCION AND IMPACTS OF ALTERNATIVE INSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURES” In honor of the carreer of the MSU distinguished Professor A. Allan Schmid Workshop organized by Nicholas Mercuro and Sandra Batie, helped by Mary Shultz. March 15- 17, 2007, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
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BOOK CHAPTERS: Foreword by Professor Sandra Batie and Nicholas Mercuro Chapter 1 POWER AND THE TROUBLESOME ECONOMISTS: COOMPLEMENTARITIES AMONG RECENT INSTITUTIONAL THEORISTS A. Allan Schmid University Distinguished Professor Department of Agricultural Economics Michigan State University Chapter 2 SOME PROBLEMS IN ASSESSING THE EVOLUTION AND IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS Warren Samuels Professor Emeritus Department of Economics Michigan State University Chapter 3 DEVELOPING A METHOD FOR ANALYZING INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Elinor Ostrom Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University Founding Director, Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity, School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University Chapter 4 DOES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REQUIRE CERTAIN PROPERTY RIGHTS? Peter J. Boettke and J. Robert Subrick DepartMent of Economics, George Mason University Chapter 5 INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS AS VOLITIONAL PRAGMATISM Daniel Bromley Anderson-Bascom Professor of Applied Economics Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics University of Wisconsin-Madison Chapter 6 INSTITUTIONS AND RATIONALITY Arild Vatn Department of Economics and Resource Management Norwegian University of Life Sciences Chapter 7 SIMPLICITY IN INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN Nathan Berg Senior Research Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin Associate Professor of Economics, The University of Texas at Dallas Chapter 8 THE ESSENCE OF ECONOMICS: LAW, PARTICIPATION AND INSTITUTIONAL CHOICE (TWO WAYS)) Neil K. Komesar John and Rylla Bosshard Professor of Law University of Wisconsin Law School Madison Chapter 9 IS LAW FACILITATING OR TAXING TRANSACTIONS? Claude Ménard Director - Centre Analyse Théorique des Organisations et des Marchés Maison des Sciences Economiques University of Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne Chapter 10 ON INSTITUTIONAL INDIVIDUALISM AS A MIDDLE WAY MODE OF EXPLANATION FOR APPROACHING ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES Fernando Toboso Department of Applied Economics, University of Valencia, Spain . Chapter 11 ATTITUDES MATTER: HOW THEY AFFECT INSTITUTIONS AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE FROM AN EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVE Uta-Maria Niederle Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group, Jena, Germany Chapter 12 POST-KEYNESIAN INSTITUTIONALISM AND THE ANXIOUS SOCIETY Charles J. Whalen Labor and Employment Relations Association, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Chapter 13 TOWARDS A THEORY OF INDUCED INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: POWER, LABOR MARKETS, AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Morris Altman Department of Economics, University of Saskatchewan Chapter 14 THE INSTITUTED NATURE OF MARKET INFORMATION: THE CASE OF INDUCED INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION Patricia Norris & David Schweikhardt & Eric Scorsone Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. Chapter 15 THE ROLE OF CULTURE AND SOCIAL NORMS IN THEORIES OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE Julie A. Hogeland Agricultural Economist, US Department of Agriculture, Washington DC Chapter 16 PAYMENT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS FOR PROTECTING DRINKING WATER IN EASTERN COSTA RICA Michael D. Kaplowitz, D. O. Pacheco and F. Lupi Michigan State University Chapter 17 A DIALOGUE ON INSTITUTIONS. Edited by N. Mercuro and S. Batie Michigan State University

SOME PICTURES AT THE WORKSHOP STARTNG TOP-RIGHT: Schmid, Schwikhardt, Whalen, Scorsone, Toboso, Niederle, Bromley, Hogeland, Mercuro, Subrick, Altman, Vatn, Ostron, Menard, Komesar, and Berg. Elinor Ostrom at the opening talk A. Schmid with J. Hogeland and F. Toboso: Allan and Kay Schmid with Ch. Whalen and A. Cadenas: N. Mercuro, P. Norris, N. Berg, Ch. Whalen and J. Hogeland (behind): S. Batie and Cl. Menard: M. Schultz arguing with D. Bromley, together with U. Niederle, Cl. Menard and N. Berg: