The Cost of Institutions: Information and Freedom in Expanding Economies

by J. Rodriguez, S. Loomis, J. Weeres

Overview

Contesting prior assumptions that institutions simplify the world for the sake of efficiency, this book argues that rather than institution expansion indicating the movement of markets to optimal states, expanding institutions generate information costs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403979698
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	04/09/2008
Edition description:	2007
Pages:	198
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

JACOB P. RODRIGUEZ received his Ph.D. from the Claremont Graduate University. His current research interests include institutional change, the behavior of information in the economy, collective decision-making, and philosophies of education.

STEVEN R. LOOMIS serves on the faculty of Wheaton College in Illinois. His research interests include the political economy of institutions worldwide.

JOSEPH G. WEERES received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and is Professor Emeritus at The Claremont Graduate University. His research focuses on institutional development, leadership and policy.

Table of Contents

Introduction Expansion Under Uncertainty The State: An Information Theory Establishing Direction in Production: The Special Case of Education The Individual and Collective in Education Politics and Markets: The Logic of Convergence Market Failure in the Preservation of Liberty