THE POVERTY OF NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS

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dc.contributor.author	deGrassi, Aaron	-
dc.date.accessioned	2017-11-07T15:06:41Z	-
dc.date.available	2017-11-07T15:06:41Z	-
dc.date.issued	2004	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1317	-
dc.description	Masters of Philosophy in Development Studies	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Since the early 1990s at least, development theories and policies have increasingly come to emphasize the importance of institutions. One significant approach is the New Institutional Economics (NIE), which emphasizes how institutions can reduce the costs and uncertainty involved in transactions, and thereby enable trade, growth and poverty alleviation. NIE, however, is rooted in social science paradigms of evolutionism and functionalism. These paradigms suffer from a number of methodological, theoretical and empirical problems, and, as a result, contain inaccurate assumptions of bounded, homogenous and inertial communities. Consequently much NIE also rests upon these assumptions. These assumptions are illustrated in one particular application of NlE-the analysis of sharecropping, with a case study of Ghana. www.udsspace.uds.edu.gh	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.title	THE POVERTY OF NEW INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS	en_US
dc.title.alternative	Sharecropping in Ghana, and the Problems with Economic Theories of Agrarian Institutions	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US
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