Dartmouth sociologist John L. Campbell will be presenting a paper on the history of neo-institutionalism with the title:

NEO-INSTITUTIONALISM: THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN POLITICAL-ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE 

Social scientists since the nineteenth century have recognized that institutions affect how well economies perform.  Interest in how institutions affected the economy reverberated into the mid-twentieth century.  In the 1960s and 1970s new theories of economic performance emerged that were less interested in institutions.  However, this began to change with the development of comparative political economy, an interdisciplinary approach to the study of capitalism that has since evolved into several schools of thought, sometimes competing, sometimes complimenting, and sometimes ignoring each other.  Each views institutions and their effects on the political economy differently from these predecessors, which is why they represent different versions of neo-institutionalism.  All this work contributed to the emergence of neo-institutional analysis in comparative political economy across the social sciences.  This paper presents the story of the development of neo-institutional theory and its efforts to explain economic performance. ¨

The event will take place April 23^rd from 13-14.30 at SP D2.45.