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academia, 16, 108, 116, 118, 1323, 136,

139, 151
access control, 55, 61, 83, 89, 95, 105, 114, 135
to funds, 53
to justice, 83
appeal, 101, 150
asset specificity, 85, 119
authority, 2, 14, 21, 23, 52, 90, 107, 110, 150

credit market, 25
critical sociologists, 87
critical sociology, 17, 84, 87
discipline, 10
discretion, 6, 10, 16, 81, 901, 108, 117, 120,
131, 146
discretionary budget, 46, 118
dissident, 23, 41
domination, 4, 6, 13, 16, 21, 23, 28, 30, 33,
38, 41, 45, 513, 68, 80, 83, 86, 95, 105
by virtue of a constellation of interests, 4,
17, 21, 30, 41
by virtue of authority, 23
Dowding, Keith, 8
dyad, 78, 23, 31, 37
market, 245
organizational, 245

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bailout funds seestimulus funds

barrier, 70, 97
boundary, 139
bounded rationality, 36
Bourdieu, Pierre, 17, 87, 134
Bowles, Samuel, 7, 22, 52
budget, 7, 35, 70, 118
allocation, 14, 46
discretionary, 10, 46, 72

Canada, 16, 57, 83, 95, 112, 121, 136, 146

career shaper, 114, 120
choice set, 36, 40, 52, 54
coercion, 14, 21
Commons, John, 23, 87
competition, 12, 22, 24, 30, 38, 48, 54, 68,
72, 85, 100, 111, 116
imperfect, 39, 45, 58
perfect, 245, 38, 46, 91
restricted, 12, 30, 32, 40, 63, 83, 116, 151
conflict of interest, 152
consumer surplus, 32, 64, 77
content analysis, 18, 65, 96
contested exchange, 16, 22, 25, 32
corruption, 63
court, 25, 98, 106, 151
court order, 83, 91

elaboration paradigm, 77
empirical testing, 62, 80
employment, 18, 245, 39, 41, 107, 112, 115,
118, 124, 131, 133, 147
permanent, 112, 116, 118
relationship, 108, 132
temporary, 112, 116
entry control, 16, 302, 38, 40, 53
equilibrium, 223, 26, 29, 34, 47, 58, 118
exogenous enforcement, 25
falsification, 17, 62, 77
field, 16, 31, 38, 40, 45, 53, 67, 77, 81, 83, 88,
96, 134, 137
focal point, 39
force (a technique of power), 10, 14, 31, 51,
54, 65, 83, 90

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gate keeper, 13, 16, 23, 32, 38, 40, 64, 70, 91,
97, 108, 110, 114, 120, 131, 139, 150
gate keeping, 13, 16, 32, 59, 61, 701, 77, 80,
89, 102, 107, 113, 119, 124, 131, 133,
1389, 147, 152
strategic component, 16, 22, 32, 41, 72,
114, 135, 152
structural component, 16, 22, 27, 41
Gintis, Herbert, 7, 22, 52
goodwill, 16, 29
government intervention, 58
Great Depression, 43, 53, 60

law, 15, 54, 147

Anglo-Saxon, 85, 88, 95
civil, 84, 88
legal aid, 86, 96
Lomonossov Moscow State
(MSU), 121, 146

University

manipulation, 14, 66
marginal cost, 34, 45
market, 3, 7, 9, 16, 21, 23, 31, 36, 48, 50,
523, 58, 60, 64, 70, 80, 83, 85, 107,
109, 111, 135
international, 12
hand
national, 12, 54
invisible, 9, 14, 18, 21, 66, 73, 77, 83, 95,
regional, 16, 61, 67, 71, 112
107, 110, 131, 140
Marxism, 9
visible, 10, 17, 73, 77, 83, 95, 107, 110 measurement costs, 17, 135
11, 131, 140
Memorial University of Newfoundland
heterodox economics, 15
(MUN), 121, 146
hierarchy, 18, 84, 88, 99, 1089, 114, 128
monopoly, 8, 32, 38, 40, 456, 51, 68, 83, 85,
Higher School of Economics (HSE), 121
97, 106
housing bubble, 44, 53
natural, 61, 67, 80, 85
housing market, 44
profit, 54, 68, 115
rent, 73, 81
ILM theory, 108, 111, 115, 118, 129, 131
monopoly profit, 32
inducement, 21
institutionalism
National Research University the Higher
new, 12, 17, 45
School of Economics (HSE), 146
original, 15, 45
neoclassical economics, 23, 43, 59, 61, 72, 108
institutionalized prejudice, 94, 105
neoclassical economic theory, 17
neoclassical economists, 24, 30, 44, 51, 59,
judge, 30, 87, 141
86, 134, 136
judicial system, 99
network, 114, 124, 137, 139, 152
see alsojudiciary
North, Douglass C., 27, 135
judiciary, 16, 83, 85, 102
justice, 95, 105
Olson, Mancur, 3
access to, 16, 83, 86, 95, 105
opportunism, 32, 59
equal, 10, 24, 83, 91, 114, 120, 139
optimism, 59
rational, 16, 23
organization theories, 18
organization theorists, 113
Keynesian economics, 601
outlier event, 59

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labour, 9, 16, 23, 25, 40, 64, 108, 115, 118, peer review, 16, 1378, 151
121, 131, 139, 152
closed, 142, 152
division of, 9, 40
double-blind, 142
labour market, 9, 18, 25, 28, 37, 108, 111,
half-blind, 142
115, 121, 131
open, 142, 152
external, 18, 108, 111, 119, 125, 133, 145 permanent employee, 108, 115
internal, 16, 35, 111, 118, 133, 139, 153
persuasion, 12, 14

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Popper, Karl, 61
Popperian criteria, 17, 65, 80
position, 70
tenured, 18, 1201, 133, 139, 147
tenure-track, 18, 118, 121, 133, 139, 147
power, 1, 4, 13, 16, 21, 23, 278, 31, 36, 46,
51, 589, 65, 72, 80, 95, 107, 111, 114,
131, 134, 138, 150
bargaining, 78, 24, 32, 3940, 52, 54, 107
coercive, 21
definition of, 4, 46
economic, 4, 7, 9, 15, 17, 48, 534
elite, 15, 65, 92
normative, 14
political, 7, 17, 21, 46, 48, 54, 86
purchasing, 7
Russian, 6, 18
smart, 12
soft, 12
strategic components of, 4, 8, 13, 22, 31, 72
structural components of, 8
symbolic, 14, 18, 83, 87, 95, 105, 143
tetrad, 29, 31
transformative, 5
triad, 16, 23, 25, 31, 36, 40, 43, 53, 58, 77,
83, 89, 97, 105, 107, 115, 118, 134,
143, 151
power holder, 1, 6, 13, 21, 356, 72, 78, 81
power over, 4, 110
power to, 45, 110
prison, 10, 15, 31, 65, 83
property rights, 29, 110, 136
public choice theorists, 456, 48, 59
public choice theory, 17, 43, 46, 589, 62, 80
public good, 18, 135, 139, 152

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reviewer, 139
external, 131, 137, 147
Russia, 16, 22, 48, 70, 81, 108, 119, 121, 150
Russian Federation, 49, 66, 70
security, 10
side of the market, 16
long, 16, 22, 278, 32, 40, 52
short, 16, 22, 27, 32, 40, 52
social action, 109, 114
social economic action, 60
Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council (SSHRC), 136
specific assets, 132
state, 12, 17, 22, 29, 48, 61, 87
stimulus funds seebailout funds
structural bias, 54
subaltern, 29, 87
subordinate, 5, 21, 31, 46, 140
subventions, 46, 53, 71, 81
supply and demand, 85
surplus, 110
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rational choice, 6, 15, 23, 59, 89

regulatory capture theory, 17, 47, 50, 63, 70
reliability, 101, 109, 124, 138
rent, 26, 301, 38, 40, 46, 52, 64, 67, 73, 110,
116
natural resource, 67
rent-seeking, 38, 40, 456, 51
repertoire, 4, 13, 65
Republic of Letters, 120, 125, 137, 152
Republic of Science, 137, 152
retail trade, 74, 77

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tax administration, 69, 71

temporary employee, 108, 115
tenure, 137, 139, 147
threat, 8, 14, 28, 108
tollbooth hypothesis, 17, 63, 80
transaction, 78, 234, 26, 29, 31, 40, 63, 85,
109, 119
bargaining, 53, 109
costs, 36, 46, 135
managerial, 40, 52, 54
rationing, 40, 524, 107, 111
triad
power, 117, 120
triangulation, 138
University of Mississippi (UM), 121, 146
unrepresented litigant, 93
utility maximization, 41, 89
validity, 61, 80, 101, 109, 124, 136
violence, 5
Weber, Max, 1, 21, 46, 88

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