… economy of social institutions, we begin with a brief overview of this field. Studies of the
rationality of social institutions take … Traditional accounts of social institutions treat the process of …

… institutions as the primitives for explaining other social phenomena. This approach, however,
begs two compelling questions. First, why does a given institution … persist as institutions? …

… social institutions could answer these questions, our theoretical understanding of the origins
of social institutions … While evolutionary theories are particularly suitable for explaining how …

… Accordingly, the claim associated with the present theory is that all the intended systems
described in the introduction are social institutions in the sense just explained. In other words, …

… these features are best explained as the outcome … social institutions should provide plausible
and testable answers to questions of institutional design, such as, why do social institutions …

… an institution as a set of social relations, a concrete social structure or organization. Parsons
never explicitly defines institution in his … social structure or organization. Parsons's subjective …

… (to the actual social context and to the social institution to be explained.) Let me suggest …
and the actual social context in which the social institution to be explained exists? Here the …

… I will first discuss how social interactions organize, coordinate, and specialize as “artifacts,”
tools; … Our social minds for social interactions are coordination artifacts and social institutions. …

… of social institutions. The applications use the idea of efficiency to account for the emergence
and persistence of institutions … Instead of explaining institutions on the basis of transaction …

… we may define institutions as systems of established and prevalent social rules that structure
social … relations, including the episodic and those without rules, as well as social institutions. …