THE ORIGINAL INSTITUTIONALISM AS A SCHOOL OF POLITICAL ECONOMICS

Year 2019, , 591 - 610, 31.12.2019

Taner Akan

https://doi.org/10.17065/huniibf.466786

Abstract

With the Great Recession of 2008-09, a
regulation-theoretic agenda, albeit ambigious, has come to the fore. In the
field of political economy, it is principally the original institutionalism
that bases its premises upon a constraint-theoretic regulation of economic
institutions. This paper, in this context, aims first to examine the
methodological and theoretical space of original institutionalism in the wider
discipline of political economy with particular reference to its points of
divergence from the new and rational choice institutionalism, and then to
investigate its rudiments in terms of the systemic interactions between the
building blocks of a politico-economic regime ranging from norm-contingent
economic development to business cycles and innovation.

Keywords

Original/old/historical institutionalism, political economy

BİR POLİTİK İKTİSAT OKULU OLARAK ORİJİNAL KURUMSALCILIK

Abstract

2008-09 Büyük
Resesyonu” ile birlikte devlet-piyasa ilişkilerinin kamu kesimi tarafından
uygulanacak kısıtlarla düzenlenmesinin gerekliliğini vurgulayan teorik ve
pratik bir gündem önplana çıkmıştır. Politik iktisat yazınında iktisadi
kurumların kısıt (constraint)
merkezli kamusal regülasyonunu formüle eden ana akım orjinal tarihselci
okuldur. Bu çalışma, bu anlamda, iki temel amacı gerçekleştirmeyi
hedeflemektedir. Birincisi orijinal tarihsel kurumsalcı okulun politik iktisat
okulları içerisindeki metodolojik ve teorik önemini yeni ve rasyonel tercih
kurumsalcılıklarından farklılılaşan yönlerini önplana çıkaran bir yaklaşımla
incelemektir. İkincisi ise orijinal kurumsalcı okulun temel politika
önermelerini norm-koşullu iktisadi kalkınmadan iş çevrimleri ve inovasyona
kadar uzanan bir kapsamda ve bir ekonomi politik yapının temel bileşenleri
arasındaki sistemik etkileşimler temelinde analiz etmektir.

Keywords

Orijinal/eski/tarihsel kurumsalcılık, politik iktisat, yeni kurumsalcılık

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