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"
Jens Prüfer (Tilburg): "Organizational Economics"
Frederic Warzynski (Aarhus): "Organizational Economics"
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 Institute on Organizations and Their Effectiveness is run at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) by Robert Gibbons and Walter Powell.
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.
Timothy Besley. 2006. Principled Agents? - The Political Economy of Good Government. Oxford University Press.
Avinash Dixit. 2004. Lawlessness and Economics: Alternative Modes of Governance. Princeton University Press.
Marcel Fafchamps. 2004. Market Institutions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theory and Evidence. MIT Press.
Nicolai J. Foss and Peter G. Klein. 2012. Organizing Entrepreneurial Judgment: A New Approach to the Firm. Cambridge University 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.
Peter T. Leeson. 2009. The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. Princeton University Press.
Chrys Mantzavinos. 2004. Individuals, Institutions, and Markets. 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.
Josiah Ober. 2015. The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece. Princeton University Press.
Sheilagh Ogilvie. 2011. Institutions and European Trade: Merchant Guilds 1000-1800. 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.
Henry Hansmann. 1996. The Ownership of Enterprise. Harvard University Press.
Oliver Hart. 1995. Firms, Contracts, and Financial Structure. Oxford University Press.
Mancur Olson. 2000. Power and Prosperity. Basic Books.
Elinor Ostrom. 1990. Governing the Commons. Cambridge University Press.
Oliver E. Williamson. 1985. The Economic Institutions of Capitalism. The Free Press.

Academic journals

Online databases of contracts with US state governments

State and territorial procurement portals (A-Z)
Florida Financial Transparency: Contract Search
USASpending includes searchable federal contracts and spending data.

More resources

American Economic Association: Resources for Students

Strategy and IOE

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