Institutional Analysis and Praxis The Social Fabric Matrix Approach /

The Social Fabric Matrix Approach (SFM-A) is a rigorous and holistic methodology for undertaking policy-relevant, complex systems research. This book contains both extensive applications of the SFM-A to contemporary issues and chapters that embed applied research in relevant theoretical, philosophic...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Natarajan, Tara. (Editor), Elsner, Wolfram. (Editor), Fullwiler, Scott. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88741-8
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • The Economy as an Open Process
  • On the Veblenian Dichotomy and the Theory of the Individual
  • Anticipations of the Social Fabric Matrix Approach in Classical Political Economy
  • Open Systems Approach, the Principle of Circular Causation of a Cumulative Process and the Social Fabric Matrix
  • Reflections on an Institutionalist Methodology for Macroeconomics
  • On Holistic Approach to Solving "Clusters" of Problems
  • Normative Analysis of Institutional Process
  • Part II
  • Service Access and Rural Well-Being
  • Ceremonial Dimensions of Market-Based Pollution Control Instruments
  • The Social Fabric Matrix Approach to Central Bank Operations
  • Elements of Social Fabric Matrix and the Case of Public Schooling
  • Using the Social Fabric Matrix to Analyze Public School Finance Systems
  • Agrarian Systems and Processes of Change
  • Institutional Analysis and Microfinance in Rural Afghanistan
  • Part III
  • The Implementation of the Analytical Devices and the Interactive Social Fabric Matrix Website
  • Convergence of the Social Fabric Matrix and Complex Modelling
  • The Impact of the Social Fabric Matrix in Analysis and Policy Advice.