%0 Journal Article %T Relationships between institutional economics of cooperation and the political economy of trust %A Vargas-Hern¨¢ndez %A Jos¨¦ G. %J Brazilian Political Science Review (Online) %D 2008 %I Associa??o Brasileira de Ci¨ºncia Pol¨ªtica %X the aim of this paper is to analyse the relationship between institutional economics of cooperation and the political economy of trust. transactions costs, principal-agent theory, market power, increasing-returns theory and value creation, strategic management: competitive forces, resource-based theory, organisational knowledge and learning, strategic choice theory and collective efficiency theory are reviewed. lastly, the political economy of trust is sustained. %K cooperation %K institutional economics %K political economy %K trust. %U http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1981-38212008000100002&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en