Paul Dragos Aligica

George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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The Two Social Philosophies of Ostroms' Institutionalism

The Policy Studies Journal. Vol. 39, No. 1, pp. 29-49
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2011
Paul Dragos Aligica and Peter J. Boettke
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Public Administration, Public Choice and the Ostroms: The Achievement, the Failure, the Promise

50th Anniversary Conference of the Public Choice Society, Plenary Session dedicated to the Bloomington School of Political Economy, New Orleans, March 7-9, 2013
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 31 Mar 2013
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Austrian Economics and the Bloomington School: An Introduction and Overview

Forthcoming in Advances in Austrian Economics (special issue on the Austrian and Bloomington Schools), GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-24
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 05 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 01 Aug 2017
Paul Dragos Aligica, Paul A. Lewis and Virgil Henry Storr
George Mason University - Mercatus Center, King's College London and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Austrian economics, Bloomington school, Hayek, Ostrom, public choice, Virginia School, poycentricity, ordo-liberalism

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Paths to Property: Approaches to Institutional Change in International Development

Institute of Economic Affairs Monographs, Hobart Paper, No. 162, 2007
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 17 Jan 2008
Karol Boudreaux and Paul Dragos Aligica
Independent and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Property Rights, Economic Development, New Institutional Economics

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Governing the Fisheries: Insights from Elinor Ostrom's Work

Institutions and Policies, ed. by R. Wellings, London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2017. , Institute of Economic Affairs Monographs, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Paul Dragos Aligica and Ion Sterpan
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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commons, governance, fisheries, conservation, Ostrom

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The Spread of the Flat Tax in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Study

Eastern European Economics,Vol. 46, No. 3, pp. 49-67, 2008
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica and Anthony J. Evans
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and ESCP Europe
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Prediction, Explanation and the Epistemology of Future Studies

Futures 35 (2003) 1027-1040
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Thought Experiments, Counterfactuals and Comparative Analysis

Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 22, No. 3, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Paul Dragos Aligica and Anthony J. Evans
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and ESCP Europe
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Analysis, Counterfactuals, Methodology, Analytic narratives, Case studies, Thought experiments

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Rethinking Institutional Analysis: Interviews with Vincent and Elinor Ostrom

Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2003
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Dec 2010
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Economic Coordination in Environments with Incomplete Pricing

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-49
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 05 Nov 2015
Paul Dragos Aligica and Richard E. Wagner
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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coordination as state; coordination as process; price proxies; network architecture; sympathetic mind-reading

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Citizenship, Political Competence and Civic Studies: The Ostromian Perspective

Civic Studies (Civic Monograph Series), Peter Levine and Karol Soltan, eds., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 31 Mar 2013
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Scenarios and the Growth of Knowledge: Notes on the Epistemic Element in Scenario Building

Technological Forecasting & Social Change 72 (2005) 815–824
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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Scenario building, thought experiments, de-biasing, uncertainty, social epistemology

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Epistemology, Social Technology, and Expert Judgement: Olaf Helmer's Contribution to Futures Research

Futures, Volume 41, Issue 5, June 2009, Pages 253-259
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica and R. Herritt
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Institutional Design and Ideas-Driven Social Change: Notes from an Ostromian Perspective

The Good Society, 2011, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 50-66
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 07 Dec 2015
Paul Dragos Aligica and Peter J. Boettke
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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Ostrom, Institutional Design, Social Change

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Framing the State of Nature Through Institutionalist Lenses

Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies. Edited by Filippo Sabetti and Dario Castiglione. Lexington Books, 2017.
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Paul Dragos Aligica and Ion Sterpan
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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State of Nature, Anarchy, Thought Experiment, Scenario, Institutionalism, Ostrom, Nozick

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Transitions to Open Access Orders and Polycentricity: Exploring the Interface between Austrian Theory and Institutionalism

New Thinking in Austrian Political Economy. Vol 19. 2015.
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Mar 2017
Ion Sterpan and Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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institutionalism; market process; polycentricity; open access orders; impersonal exchange

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Elinor Ostrom – Nobel Prize in Economics 2009

Economic Affairs, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 95-96, March 2010
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 02 Mar 2010
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center
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State Capitalism and the Rent-Seeking Conjecture

Constitutional Political Economy, Online First, September 2012
Posted: 20 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science

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State capitalism, Mercantilism, Rent-seeking, Comparative economic systems, Political economy

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Institutional and Stakeholder Mapping: Frameworks for Policy Analysis and Institutional Change

Public Organization Review, Vol. 6, June 2006
Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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Policy analysis, Stakeholder mapping, Public policy design, Institutional analysis

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Learning in Time: New Institutionalism and the Central and Eastern European Economic Reform Experience

Global Business & Economics Review, Vol. 8, Nos. 1 & 2, 2006
Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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new institutional economics, economic policy, economic reform, Central Europe, Eastern Europe, post communist transition, transition economies

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Efficacy, East and West: François Jullien’s Explorations in Strategy

Comparative Strategy, (2007) 26:4, 325-337
Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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Strategy, uncertainty, surprise, decision making

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Polycentricity: From Polanyi to Ostrom, and Beyond

Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration, and Institutions, Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 237-262, April 2012
Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica and Vlad Tarko
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and University of Arizona - Department of Political Economy and Moral Science

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Operational Codes, Institutional Learning and the Optimistic Model of Post-Communist Social Change

Communist and Post-Communist Studies 36 (2003) 87-99
Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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Local and Global Governance and the Challenge of Heterogeneity: Revisiting the Agenda and its Implications for Institutional Theory

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper
Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2013
Paul Dragos Aligica
George Mason University - Mercatus Center

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Ambiguity, Imitation, and Innovation: Notes on the Conceptual and Operational Facets of the EU Approach to Entrepreneurship Policy

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Historical Research Reference in Entrepreneurship
Posted: 11 Nov 2009
Paul Dragos Aligica and Mirela State
George Mason University - Mercatus Center and affiliation not provided to SSRN

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Entrepreneurship policy, Regional policies, Economic policies, Public policies, Policy analysis