The Evolution of Institutional Economics
Published on 4. March 2004
560 pages
978-1-134-35270-8 (ISBN)
Description
This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciat
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
2,99 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-134-35270-8 (9781134352708)
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Geoffrey M. Hodgson
The Evolution of Institutional Economics
Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism
Book
03/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
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Geoffrey M. Hodgson
The Evolution of Institutional Economics
Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism
Book
03/2004
1st Edition
Routledge
€65.50
Shipment within 15-20 days
Person
Geoffrey M. Hodgson is Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He was formerly a Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK. His previous books include How Economics Forgot History (2001) and Economics and Utopia (1999), both available from Routledge.
Content
PART I Introduction 1 Nature and scope 2 Agency and structure 3 Objections and explanations PART II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences 4 Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species 5 Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution PART III Veblenian institutionalism 6 The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism 7 The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen 8 Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism 9 The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture 10 A wrong turning: science and the machine process 11 Missed connections: creative synthesis and emergent evolution 12 The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its Veblenian ballast PART IV Institutionalism into the wilderness 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics 15 The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight 16 The evolution of Clarence Ayres 17 The Ayresian dichotomies: Ayres versus Veblen 18 The decline of institutional economics PART V Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics 19 The potential revival of Veblenian institutionalism 20 On individuals and institutions 21 Conclusion and beginning
