"Merging and extending key perspectives on collective action problems, inequality, and development, this book constructs a flexible framework to investigate social and economic change. By probing four basic hypotheses related to knowledge production, distribution, power, and innovation, Ferguson...

This paper presents a theoretical argument focused on how social norms and formal institutions operate as cognitive coping mechanisms among groupings of boundedly rational actors who face fundamental uncertainty concerning their political and economic environments. Broadly speaking, informal and...