Essays on New Institutional Economics

Prof. Dr. Rudolf Richter ist tätig am Institut für Soziologie an der Universität Wien in Österreich.

Preface.- The New Institutional Economics: Its Start, its Meaning, its Prospects.-Uncertainty in Economic Theory from the Perspective of New Institutional Economics.- New Economic Sociology and New Institutional Economics.- The Role of Law in the New Institutional Economics.- Entrepreneurs as Surrogate Forward Traders of Goods and Services, Seen from the Viewpoint of New Institutional Economics.- The Euro Crisis from the Perspective of the Preceding Debates on Fixed Versus Flexible Exchange Rates and the European Currency Union.- Why Price Stability? A Brief Answer from the Perspective of the New Institutional Economics.- Bringing Old and New Institutional Economics: Gustav Schmoller, the Leader of the Younger German Historical School, seen with Neoinstitutionalists' Eyes.- German "Ordnungstheorie" from the Perspective of the New Institutional Economics.- Methodology from the Viewpoint of an Economic Theorist - Fifty Years On.