The Cognitive Mechanics of Economic Development and Institutional Change

by Bertin Martens

Overview

This book seeks to explain long-term economic development and institutional change in terms of the cognitive features of human learning and communication processes. Martens links individual cognitive processes to macroeconomic growth theories, including economies of scale and scope, and to theories of institutional development based on asymmetric i

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134340163
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/05/2004
Series:	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy , #54
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	577 KB

About the Author

Bertin Martens

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Part One: Knowledge and Economics 2. The Uneasy Relationship Between Knowledge and Economics 3. The Role of Distributed Knowledge in Economics Part Two: The Principle of Cognitive Economy 4. Knowledge and the Principle of Cognitive Economy 5. Communication and Distributed Knowledge 6. The Economy as a Knowledge Communication System 7. Economies of Scope Part Three: The Cognitive Mechanics of Institutional Development 8. The Role of Institutions 9. The State's Monopoly on Violence 10. Endogenous Institutions