Classics in institutional economics : the founders, 1890-1945

Author(s)

• Rutherford, Malcolm
• Samuels, Warren J.

Bibliographic Information

Classics in institutional economics : the founders, 1890-1945

edited by Malcolm Rutherford & Warren J. Samuels

Pickering & Chatto, 1997

• set
• : v. 1
• : v. 2
• : v. 3
• : v. 4
• : v. 5

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Institutional economics is recognised as a peculiarly American development in economics - nothing quite like it emerged in Britain or continental Europe. As such, a knowledge of the literature of institutionalism is a necessary part of understanding the history of American economics and American social thought more broadly. The work of the authors featured in this collection served to create and define the American institutionalist tradition in economics: Thorstein Veblen, Richard Theodore Ely, John Rogers Commons, Robert Franklin Hoxie, Wesley Clair Mitchell and Walton Hale Hamilton. These figures were also central to institutionalism's numerous debates on the unifying characteristics of the movement and its principal contributions - making this collection of their most important works a convenient vehicle to assess these issues. It is also of increasing value given the fact that the main concerns of institutionalists, such as the role of institutions and development of an evolutionary approach, having been coming back into prominence as important issues in economics.

Table of Contents

• Part I Volume 1 J M Clark: 'The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility' (1916)
• 'Business Acceleration and the Law of Demand: A Technical Factor in Economic Cycles' (1917)
• 'Economics and Modern Psychology, I-II' (1918)
• 'Soundings in non-Euclidian Economics' (1921)
• 'Overhead Costs in Modern Industry, I-III' (1923)
• 'Conclusion to Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs' (1923)
• 'The Relation Between Statics and Dynamics' (1927)
• 'Toward a Concept of Workable Competition' (1940)
• 'Realism and Relevance in the Theory of Demand' (1946)
• 'Mathematical Economists and Others: A Plea for Communicability' (1947)
• R L Hale: 'Law Making by Unofficial Minorities' (1920)
• 'The 'Physical Value' Fallacy in Rate Cases' (1921)
• 'Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-coercive State' (1923) Volume 2 M A Copeland: 'Economic Theory and the Natural Science Point of View' (1931)
• 'Some Problems in the Theory of National Income' (1932)
• 'Institutional Economics and Model Analysis' (1951)
• Institutionalism and Welfare Economics (1958)
• G C Means: 'Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility' (1935)
• 'Price Inflexibility and the Requirements of a Stabilizing Monetary Policy' (1935)
• 'Notes on Inflexible Prices' (1936)
• 'Monetary Institutions to Serve the Modern Economy' (1967)
• 'The Corporate Revolution' (1962)
• F C Millls: 'Price Movements and Related Changes' (1929)
• S Perlman: 'Labor and Capitalism in America' (1928)
• 'Economic Opportunity and Group Psychology' (1928) Volume 3 R G Tugwell: 'The Economic Basis for Business Regulation' (1921)
• 'Human Nature in Economic Theory' (1922)
• 'Human Nature and Social Economy, I-lI' (1930)
• 'The Theory of Occupational Obsolescence' (1931)
• 'The Principle of Planning and the Institution of Laissez-Faire' (1932)
• 'Government and Industry' (1933)
• E E Witte: 'Value of Injunctions in Labor Disputes' (1924)
• 'Old Age Security in the Social Security Act' (1937)
• 'What to Expect of Social Security' (1944)
• 'Role of the Unions in Contemporary Society' (1950)
• 'Institutional Economics as Seen by an Institutional Economist' (1954)
• 'Economics and Public Policy' (1957)
• A B Wolfe: 'Institutional Reasonableness and Value' (1936) Volume 4 C E Ayres: 'Values: Ethical and Economic' (1934)
• 'Fifty Years' Developments in Ideas of Human Nature and Motivation' (1936)
• 'The Co-ordinates of Institutionalism' (1951)
• 'The Knowing-and-Doing Process' (1961)
• 'Myths, Mores, Magic, and Status' (1961)
• 'The Industrial Way of Life' (1961)
• 'Ceremonial Patterns' (1962)
• 'Technology and Institutions' (1962)
• 'The Theory of Institutional Adjustment' (1967)
• J F Foster: 'The Theory of Institutional Adjustment' (1981)
• 'The Relation Between the Theory of Value and Economic Analysis' (1981)
• 'Effect of Technology on Institutions' (1981)
• W C Gordon: 'Capitalism and Technological Adaptation in Latin America' (1969)
• D Hamilton: 'Newtonianism and Darwinism in Economic Theory' (1970)
• H M Groves: 'Toward a Social Theory of Progressive Taxation' (1956)
• 'Institutional Economics and Public Finance' (1964)
• K Parsons: 'John R. Commons' Point of View' (1942)
• 'Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development Policy' (1966)
• S H. Slichter: 'The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations' (1939)
• 'The Responsibility of Organized Labor for Employment' (1945)
• 'The Social Control of Industrial Relations' (1949)
• G Colm: 'The Ideal Tax System' (1934) 'Why Public Finance?' (1936)
• 'The Theory of Public Expenditures' (1936)
• 'In Defense of the Public Interest' (1960) Volume 5 J K Galbraith: 'The Theory of Social Balance' (1958)
• 'The Technostructure' (1971)
• 'The Revised Sequence' (1971)
• 'The Industrial System and the State' (1971)
• 'The Nature of Collective Intelligence' (1973)
• 'The Affirmative Purposes' (1973)
• 'The Emancipation of the State' (1973)
• J S Gambs: 'General Principles' (1946)
• A G Gruchy: 'Neoinstitutionalism and the Economics of Dissent' (1969)
• 'Government Intervention and the Social Control of Business: The Neoinstitutionalist Position' (1974)
• 'Planning in Contemporary Institutional Thought' (1982)
• H A Innis: 'Industrialism and Cultural Values' (1951)
• K W Kapp: 'Social Costs and Economic Science' (1950)
• 'The Nature and Significance of Social Costs' (1950)
• 'In Defense of Institutional Economics' (1968)
• G Myrdal: 'Introduction to An American Dilemma' (1944)
• 'American Ideals and the American Conscience' (1944)
• 'A Methodological Note on Valuations and Beliefs' (1944)
• 'A Methodological note on Facts and Valuations in Social Science' (1944)
• 'The Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation' (1957)
• 'Political and Institutional Economics' (1978)

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Details

• NCID: BA33837017
• ISBN:
  • 1851963901
  • 185196391X
  • 1851963928
  • 1851963936
  • 1851963944
  • 1851963952
• LCCN: 97022389
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London ; Brookfield, Vt.
• Pages/Volumes: 5 v.
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • NDC9 : 331.76
  • LCC : HB99.5
  • DC21 : 330.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Institutional economics