Yoram Barzel and the Economics of Institutions
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Yoram Barzel and the Economics of Institutions
| Author | Dean Lueck |
|---|---|
| Published | 2018 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Dean Lueck’s survey of what Yoram Barzel contributed to institutional economics — a property-rights and transaction-cost approach run over car racing, slavery, Jewish lending and condominium voting rules — with measurement cost as the through-line that makes institutions necessary. A guided way into an economist whose work is scattered across cases rather than collected in one treatise. |
Yoram Barzel and the Economics of Institutions
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List, in Institutions, Property Rights, and the Law, March 2026. Full list: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
About this edition
Not a book: an article in Man and the Economy (vol. 5 no. 2, 2018). Barzel’s ideas it covers include racing to claim assets, multitasking, rationing by waiting, divided ownership of complex assets, measurement costs and the economic origins of democracy.
Connections
- Institutions — the subject of Barzel’s programme.
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the list this came from.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.