What Is Institutional Economics?

10 June 2014


Definition
Institutions are the LAW, CUSTOMS, and TRADITIONS of a society. Institutional Economics is  a discipline that focuses on the role of institutions and evolutionary process that will influence economic behavior. If the standard economics assume the existence of market and government policy influence economic and trade , Institutional Economic go deeper.


Human play under the “Rules Of Game”

Douglas C.North  is a Noble Prize for economics 1993 that study the role of Institutions.Institutionist look into the origin of the markets, how its tapping the state and other factor encouraging economic activity such as a social condition. Douglass North sees institutions as “humanly devised constraints that shape human interaction”. The interaction has rules.The rules are what makes his people act like in common.(eg. Society social code, customs, and traditions). This was called the North’s Institutions and run within the set “Rules Of Games”.




Evolution of Instituition

Institution's economic study institutions and believe that the complex relation of the market come from various Intuitions such as Individual, firms,states,social norms and others are built from the past.Choice in the future shape of the past.The niche area of Institutional economics is bounded rationality (Human are incapable to become rational all the time) , learning and evolution.



Traditional Institutions, Economics
They reject the idea of the institutional change just because of taste, environment and technology. The institutional nature shaped and limited by the expectation of the future, habits, and motivation. Things will not change if people choose to do the same thing routinely. Those values create the world -view.






The Importants Of Markets and Property for Norths Institutions

He mentions that Property right for the institution is an essential for economic growth. States must guarantee the order of the institution which going to give power to activate property right. This power also allows states to use resources for its own benefit. The market cannot survive without state to monitored institution.
According to North, the state also cannot survive under anarchy. Therefore, the institution within the state must be strengthened to strengthen the economy . The Bad institutions disrupt economic growth.While good institutions prosper the nation.

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