| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Part I -- The Economy as an Open Process -- On the Veblenian Dichotomy and the Theory of the Individual -- Anticipations of the Social Fabric Matrix Approach in Classical Political Economy -- Open Systems Approach, the Principle of Circular Causation of a Cumulative Process and the Social Fabric Matrix -- Reflections on an Institutionalist Methodology for Macroeconomics -- On Holistic Approach to Solving "Clusters" of Problems -- Normative Analysis of Institutional Process -- Part II -- Service Access and Rural Well-Being -- Ceremonial Dimensions of Market-Based Pollution Control Instruments -- The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Central Bank Operations -- Elements of Social Fabric Matrix and the Case of Public Schooling -- Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Analyze Public School Finance Systems -- Agrarian Systems and Processes of Change -- Institutional Analysis and Microfinance in Rural Afghanistan -- Part III -- The Implementation of the Analytical Devices and the Interactive Social Fabric Matrix Website -- Convergence of the Social Fabric Matrix and Complex Modelling -- The Impact of the Social Fabric Matrix in Analysis and Policy Advice |
| Summary |
The Social Fabric Matrix Approach (SFM-A) is a rigorous and holistic methodology for undertaking policy-relevant, complex systems research. This book contains both extensive applications of the SFM-A to contemporary issues and chapters that embed applied research in relevant theoretical, philosophical, and methodological frameworks. It offers a balance of applications through case studies across regions and topics that span areas of finance, development, education, and environment, to name a few. This book creates new ways of using the SFM and forges previously unexplored connections between institutional economics and other areas of study such as financial markets, micro credit, political economy and sustainable development, thus contextually refining the SFM-A. This book complements F. Gregory Hayden's Policymaking for a Good Society: The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation. "Institutional Analysis and Praxis: The Social Fabric Matrix Approach ... is interesting and thought-provoking. The book should fill or create a good size niche in modeling the effects of economic and social institutions on development, in part because it includes values directly in the model."--Glen Atkinson, University of Nevada, Reno "The book is concerned with a demonstration of the methodological and analytical importance of the Social Fabric Matrix (SFM) and its application to a wide variety of real-world policy problems. As such, it is the first book of its kind, drawing on the contributions of economic scholars who are doing pioneering work in the application of the SFM to economic policy problems. It is, in short, a ground-breaking enterprise."--Paul Bush, CSU Fresno " [This book] offers a fresh perspective, as this is the first contribution that would underscore Hayden's contribution ... The editors have assembled one of the finest collections of contemporary Institutionalist thinkers that appears to have been assembled."--John Hall, Portland State University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Policy sciences.
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Social systems.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- General.
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Economie de l'entreprise.
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Science économique.
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Affaires.
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Policy sciences
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Social systems
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Natarajan, Tara
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Elsner, Wolfram.
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Fullwiler, Scott T.
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| ISBN |
9780387887418 |
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0387887415 |
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