Institutional analysis and praxis: the social fabric matrix approach

The Social Fabric Matrix Approach (SFM-A) is a rigorous and holistic methodology for undertaking policy-relevant, complex systems research. This book contains both extensive applications of the SFM-A to contemporary issues and chapters that embed applied research in relevant theoretical, philosophical, and methodological frameworks. It offers a balance of applications through case studies across regions and topics that span areas of finance, development, education, and environment, to name a few. This book creates new ways of using the SFMand forges previously unexplored connections between institutional economics and other areas of study such as financial markets, micro credit, political economy and sustainable development, thus contextually refining the SFM-A. This book complements F. Gregory Hayden’s Policymaking for a Good Society: The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Policy Analysis and Program Evaluation. INDICE: Introduction.- Part I.- The Economy as an Open Process.- On the Veblenian Dichotomy and the Theory of the Individual.- Anticipations of the Social Fabric Matrix Approach in Classical Political Economy.- Open Systems Approach, the Principle of Circular Causation of a Cumulative Process and the SocialFabric Matrix.- Reflections on an Institutionalist Methodology for Macroeconomics.- On Holistic Approach to Solving 'Clusters' of Problems.- Normative Analysis of Institutional Process.- Part II.- Service Access and Rural Well-Being.- Ceremonial Dimensions of Market-Based Pollution Control Instruments.- The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Central Bank Operations.- Elements of Social Fabric Matrix and the Case of Public Schooling.- Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Analyze Public School Finance Systems.- Agrarian Systems and Processes of Change.- Institutional Analysis and Microfinance in Rural Afghanistan.- Part III.- The Implementation of the Analytical Devices and the Interactive Social Fabric Matrix Website.- Convergence of the Social Fabric Matrix and Complex Modelling.- The Impact of the Social Fabric Matrix in Analysis and Policy Advice

• ISBN: 978-0-387-88740-1
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 250
• Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés