Adrian Miroiu’s Weblog

Acest curs are un caracter avansat şi presupune cunoştinţe de bază din domeniul teoriei alegerii raţionale. Cursul tratează diferitele abordări ale ideii de insitutţie şiu se concentrează asupra semnificaţiei acesteia în ştiinţa politică.

 

1. Introducere: teoria alegerii rationale

Adrian Miroiu, Fundamentele politicii, vol. 2, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 2007, cap. 11.

R. Axelrod, (1984): The Evolution of Cooperation, Basic Books, New York.

Skyrms, B., Evolution of the social contract, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1996, cap. 1.

 

2. Critici si modele alternative

Herbert A. Simon, A Behavioral Model of Rational Choice, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Vol. 69, No. 1, Feb., 1955, pp. 99-118

Herbert A. Simon, Rational Decision Making in Business Organizations, The American Economic Review, Vol. 69, No. 4, Sep., 1979, pp. 493-513

Herbert A. Simon, The Logic of Rational Decision, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Vol. 16, No. 63, Nov., 1965, pp. 169-186

Michael D. Cohen, James G. March, Johan P. Olsen, A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice, Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1, Mar., 1972, pp. 1-25

Ch. Lindblom, The science of “muddling through”, Public Administration Review, 10, 2, 1959, pp. 79 – 88.

Charles E. Lindblom, Policy Analysis, The American Economic Review, Vol. 48, No. 3, Jun., 1958, pp. 298-312

 

3 – 4. Provocarea instituţionalistă

J. G. March, J.P. Olsen, Rediscovering Institutions. The Organizational Basis of Politics, The Free Press, NY, 1989.

March, J.C., Olsen, J.P. (1984): The New Institutionalism: Organizational Factors in Political Life, The American Political Science Review, 78, 3, pp. 734 – 749.

K. A. Shepsle, Studzing Institutions. Some lessons from the rational choice approach, Journal of Theoretical Politics, 1 (2), 1989, pp. 131 – 147.

 

5. Instituţionalismul sociologic

P.J. DiMaggio, W.W. Powell, The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality, in P.J. DiMaggio, W.W. Powell (eds.), Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis, The Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1991.

Granovetter, M. (1985): Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness, The American Journal of Sociology, 91, 3, pp. 481 – 510.

 

6. Institutionalismul economic

Douglass C. North, Robert Paul Thomas, An Economic Theory of the Growth of the Western World, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Apr., 1970), pp. 1-17

C. Mantzavinos, Douglass C. North, Syed Shariq, Learning, Institutions, and Economic Performance, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 2, No. 1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 75-84

Douglass C. North, Economic Performance Through Time, The American Economic Review, Vol. 84, No. 3 (Jun., 1994), pp. 359-368

Douglass C. North, Institutions and the Performance of Economies over Time, în C. Menard, M. M. Shirley (Eds.) Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, Springer, 2005.

Oliver E. Williamson, Transaction Cost Economics, în C. Menard, M. M. Shirley (Eds.) Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, Springer, 2005.

 

7 – 9 Institutionalismul si gestionarea bunurilor comune

7

Ostrom, E. (1998): A Behavioral Approach to the Rational Choice Theory of Collective Action, The American Political Science Review, 92 (1), pp. 1 – 22.

Ostrom, E. (2000): Collective Action and the Evolution of Social Norms, The Journal of Economic Perspectives, 14, 3, pp. 137 – 158.

E. Ostrom, Doing Institutional Analysis: Digging Deeper than Markets and Hierarchies, în C. Menard, M. M. Shirley (Eds.) Handbook Of New Institutional Economics, Springer, 2005.

Crawford, S., Ostrom, E. (1995): A Grammar of Institutions, The American Political Science Review, 89, 3, 1995, pp. 582 – 600.

8 – 9

Ostrom, E. (1990): Governing the Commons. The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. (trad. Rom., Polirom, Iaşi, 2007)

Ostrom, E. (2005): Understanding Institutional Diversity, Princeton University Press, Princeton.

 

10. Instituţiile ca echilibre in sens evoluţionist

Sugden, R. (1989): Spontaneous Order, Journal of Economic Perspective, 3, 4, pp. 85-97.

Young, H.P. (1993): The Evolution of Conventions, Econometrica, 61, 1, pp. 57-84.

Greif, A. (1998): Historical and comparative institutional analysis, The American Economic Review,  88, 2, pp. 80 – 84.

Binmore, K., Natural justice, Oxford University Press, New York, 2005

 

11 – 12. Abordarea complexa a instituţiilor

Greif, A., Milgrom, P., Weingast, B.R. (1994): Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild, The Journal of Political Economy, 102, 4, pp. 745 – 776.

Greif, A., Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy, Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006.

 

13 – 14. TBA.

 

Evaluarea se bazeaza pe activitatea pe parcursul semestrului (75%) si prezentarea unei lucrari de 3000 cuvinte (25%).