The Essential Institutions of Capitalism
Date
| Time
| Topic
| Location
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23 Nov 2011
| 7:00pm
| Law, custom and the state
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
25 Nov 2011
| 7:00pm
| Possessionand property rights
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
28 Nov 2011
| 7:00pm
| Exchange and markets
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
30 Nov 2011
| 7:00pm
| Property, markets and socialism
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
2 Dec 2011
| 7:00pm
| Money and capital
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
5 Dec 2011
| 7:00pm
| Employment and corporations
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
7 Dec 2011
| 7:00pm
| The nature of capitalism
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
14 Dec 2011
| 7:00pm
| Capitalism – varieties and future
| Run Run Shaw Science Building 513
|
Reading
De Soto, Hernando (2000)The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West and Fails Everywhere Else(New York: Basic Books).
Gindis, David (2009) ‘From Fictions and Aggregates to Real Entities in the Theory of the Firm’,Journal of Institutional Economics,5(1), April, pp. 25-46.
Hayek, Friedrich A. (1944)The Road to Serfdom(London: George Routledge).
Hayek, Friedrich A. (1948)Individualism and Economic Order(London and Chicago: George Routledge and University of Chicago Press).
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (1999)Economics and Utopia: Why the Learning Economy is not the End of History(London and New York: Routledge).
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2002) ‘The Legal Nature of the Firm and the Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid’,International Journal of the Economics of Business,9(1), February, pp. 37-60.
Hodgson, Geoffrey M. (2009) ‘On the Institutional Foundations of Law: The Insufficiency of Custom and Private Ordering’,Journal of Economic Issues,43(1), March, pp. 143-66.
Honoré, A. M. (1961) ‘Ownership’, in Guest, Anthony G. (ed.) (1961)OxfordEssays in Jurisprudence(Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 107-47.
Ingham, Geoffrey (2004)The Nature of Money(Cambridge: Polity Press).
Ingham, Geoffrey (2008)Capitalism(Cambridge: Polity Press).
Marx, Karl (1867)Das Kapital: Kritik der politischen Ökonomie, vol. 1(Hamburg: Meissner).
Steiger, Otto (ed.) (2008)Property Economics: Property Rights, Creditor’s Money and the Foundations of the Economy(Marburg: Metropolis)
