Our Field
Teaching Resources
Are you a (prospective) student or a researcher interested in institutional or organizational economics, broadly defined? Here we list a few resources that can make it easier to understand this interdisciplinary field better. The lists are neither complete nor aimed to be definitive.
Graduate-level courses on institutions and/or organizations
- Steven Tadelis and Noam Yuchtman (Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley): "Economics of Institutions"
- Peter Klein (Baylor): "Economics of Institutions and Organizations"
- Avner Greif (Stanford): "Institutions and Organizations in Historical Perspective"
- Benito Arruñada (Pompeu Fabra): "Organizations and Markets"
- Robert Gibbons (MIT Sloan): "Organizational Economics"
- Michael Powell (Northwestern Kellogg): "The Economics of Organizations"
- Daron Acemoglu, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Ben Olken (MIT): "Political Economy of Institutions and Development"
- Richard Langlois (Connecticut): "The Economics of Organization"
Summer schools and workshops
- Institutional and Organizational Economics Academy (formerly: ESNIE European School on New Institutional Economics): an annual summer school organized in Corsica, involving many researchers related to SIOE.
- The Ronald Coase Institute organizes annual workshops on institutional analysis targeting young scholars.
- The Workshop on Relational Contracts is an annual workshop promoting a conversation between economists and scholars in law, management and other social sciences.
Recent research books
- Douglas W. Allen. 2012. The Institutional Revolution. University of Chicago Press.
- Robert Gibbons and John Roberts. 2012. The Handbook of Organizational Economics. Princeton University Press.
- Avner Greif. 2006. Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy. Cambridge University Press.
- Claude Menard and Mary Shirley. 2005. Handbook of New Institutional Economics. Springer.
- Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast. 2009. Violence and Social Orders. Cambridge University Press.
- Jared Rubin. 2017. Rulers, Religion, and Riches. Cambridge University Press.
Classic books
- Robert C. Ellickson. 1991. Order Without Law: How Neighbors Settle Disputes. Harvard University Press.
- Oliver Hart. 1995. Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure. Oxford University Press.
- Elinor Ostrom. 1990. Governing the Commons. Cambridge University Press.
- Oliver E. Williamson. 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. The Free Press.