The New Institutional Economics
Contents: Foreword. I: Nie: The Framework. 1. The New Institutional Economics-Its Perimeters and Promises/Nirmal Sengupta. 2. Theoretical Approaches of the New Institutional Economics/N. Jaganathan and D. Namasivayam. 3. Conventional Economics in the New Institutional Framework/M.K. Dasgupta. II: Nie and Issues in Development Studies. 4. Role of Institutions in Economic Development/Bharati D. Dave. 5. Relevance of New Institutional Economics for Developing Countries/Savita Bhagat. 6. Development Implications of Institutional Change in India: A Case Study/Bhagabata Patro, Purushottam Sahu and U.Ch. Panigrahi. 7. New Institutional Economics and Economic Reforms in India/Shrawn Kumar Singh. 8. Local Government in India: The New Institutional Approach/V. Loganathan and K. Jothi Sivagnanam. 9. Educational Initiatives of PRIs and Community in Education Development of Poor: Experience form Kolhapur, Maharashtra/Y. Gangi Reddy. 10. Institutional Failure, Corruption and Economic Underdevelopment/Ratan Kumar Ghosal. III: Nie and Agricultural Development. 11. New Institutions for Meeting Agricultural development: Challenges under Globalization/Paramjit Nanda and P.S. Raikhy. 12. New Institutional Economics and Agricultural Policy Issues/Sandeep Kumar. 13. Sharecropping: A Rational Institutional Response/Nisar Ahmad Khan. 14. Institutional Change, Transaction Costs and Natural Resource Management/Falendra K. Sudan. IV: Nie and Gender Issues. 15. New and Old Institutional Economics and Gender in India/Yasodha Shanmugasundaram. 16. New Institutional Economics Approach to New Household Economics/P. Arumugam and A. Balasubramanian.17. Economic Implications of Marriage Institution with Reference to Women’s Empowerment/Ghanshyam Upadhyay. V: Nie and Financial Reforms. 18. New Institutional Economics: Its Relevance to the Financial Sector/C. Thangamuthu. 19. Financial Sector Reforms in India: An Institutional Economics Perspective/M.K. Datar and Parikshit K. Basu. 20. Formal Financial Institutions and Rural Credit Provisioning in India: A Micro-economic Model of Default Mitigation/
Ashutosh Kumar. 21. International Financial Institutions, European Central Bank and the International Monetary System/Debesh Bhowmik. Index.
The New Institutional Economics is an edited volume consisting of 21 selected articles presented/contributed at the technical session on the same theme at the 86th Conference of the Indian Economic Association held at the Shivaji University, Kolhapur. These articles are distributed over 5 sections. These articles are preceded by an Editorial Introduction by Vedagiri Shanmugasundaram and a Foreword by Raj Kumar Sen. One can get an idea of this growing literature in this emerging and important are of economics form this volume. (Jacket)
