Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School

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Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School

Social Change Project

  • Start Date:
    Tuesday, February 02, 2010
  • End Date:
    Tuesday, February 02, 2010
  • Time:
    4:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location:
    Lecture: Room 121
    Reception: Atrium
    George Mason University School of Law
    Hazel Hall
    3301 N Fairfax Dr
    Arlington, VA 22201
  • Research Areas:
    Institutional Analysis, Social Change
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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University hosted a special installment of the Mercatus Lecture Series, "Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School," A Panel Discussion & Reception with Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Laureate, 2009 and Co-director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis; Paul Dragos Aligica, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center; and Peter Boettke, Vice President for Research, Mercatus Center.

The panel discussed the unique research agenda of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis as well as Boettke and Aligica's book, Challenging Institutional Analysis and Development: The Bloomington School. 

The Bloomington School has become one of the most dynamic, well recognized and productive centers of the New Institutional Theory Movement. Its ascendancy is considered to be the result of a unique and extremely successful combination of interdisciplinary theoretical approaches and hard-nosed empiricism. The book presents an outline and a systematic analysis of the vision behind the Bloomington Research Program, explaining its basic assumptions, its main themes, and the foundational philosophy that frames its research questions and methodological approaches.

 

 

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Elinor Ostrom

  • Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science, Indiana University
Elinor Ostrom, Nobel Prize winner in economics, 2009, is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Ostrom's ideas on new institutional analysis and development (especially self-organization and self-governance) are at the heart of Mercatus' research agenda. Together with Austrian economics and Virginia political economy, they form the basis of an interdisciplinary approach to political economy we call "The Mercatus School."
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Paul Dragos Aligica

  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Faculty Fellow, James Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University
Paul Dragos Aligica is a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center, a faculty fellow at the James Buchanan Center for Political Economy at George Mason University, and an adjunct fellow at the Hudson Institute.
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Peter J. Boettke

  • Vice President for Research
  • BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism
  • University Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Peter Boettke is a university professor of economics at George Mason University, the BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism, vice president for research, and research director for the Global Prosperity Initiative at the Mercatus Center, and the deputy director of the James M. Buchanan Center for Political Economy.
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