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Francesco Chiodelli and Emiliano Esposito: The regulatory environment of illegal access to public housing in Naples
This paper focuses on the informal occupation of public housing in Naples (Italy), analysing the fraudulent takeover of housing units. An in-depth look at this case study contributes to the international debate on the nexus between urban informality and the state, showing the fundamental, multifaceted role of public institutions in shaping the illegal city.
John Meadowcroft: Buchanan at the American Founding: The Constitutional Political Economy of a Republic of Equals and Unequals
James M. Buchanan cited the American Founding as an important inspiration for his constitutional vision. His insistence on unanimous constitutional agreement highlights the fact that the Constitutional Convention did not obtain the consent of the black Americans. Accordingly, Buchanan’s work leads to an appreciation of the Founders as an archetype of the constitutional mentality that he advocated throughout his work, but also to an understanding that the Founding fell short of his ideal of genuinely consensual politics.
Paul Lewis: The Innovation Systems Approach: an Austrian and Ostromian Perspective
The innovation systems (IS) approach—developed by Richard Nelson, Christopher Freeman and Bengt-Ake Lundvall, amongst others—has become perhaps the dominant approach in the academic literature for the study of innovation. This paper argues that the work of Friedrich Hayek and Elinor Ostrom can be used to draw attention to some potential difficulties with the way in which the IS approach is often used to guide policy.
Volha Charnysh: Diversity, Institutions, and Economic Development: Post-WWII Displacement in Poland
How does cultural diversity affect social organization? Do institutional differences between diverse and homogeneous communities have implications for economic development? This paper argues that heterogeneity not only impedes informal mechanisms of cooperation, but also increases demand for formal institutions. Greater reliance on formal law and public authority, in turn, facilitates economic development by enabling arm’s length transactions and encouraging entrepreneurship.
Shelby Grossman: The Politics of Order in Informal Markets: Evidence from Lagos
Property rights are important for economic exchange, but in much of the world they are not publicly guaranteed. Private market associations can fill this gap by providing an institutional structure to enforce agreements, but with this power comes the ability to extort from group members. Under what circumstances do private associations provide a stable environment for economic activity?
Adam Tebble: More Open Borders and Deep Structural Transformation
Building upon recent work on epistemic varieties of liberalism, avant-garde political agency and the theory and practice of activism, I claim that a liberal defence of more open borders does not presuppose either indifference to the problem of the deep structural sources of poverty in poorer countries, or the absence of an account of those structures’ transformation.
Local Energy Communities and Distributed Generation: Contrasting Perspectives, and Inevitable Policy Trade-Offs, beyond the Apparent Global Consensus
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Ilia and Jennifer Murtazashvili: Wealth Destroying States
We use evidence from Afghanistan to illustrate how political instability and the absence of meaningful political constraints enables the predatory state. Foreign aid and foreign military intervention amplify the wealth-destroying features of political institutions.
Brian Kogelmann: Epistemic Polycentricity and the Theory of Public Entrepreneurship
Political theorists have recently shifted their focus from the normative properties of institutions to their epistemic ones. One popular thesis in the current literature is that democracy has desirable epistemic properties, at least when compared to other methods of social choice.
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