The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure and Darwinism in American institutionalism
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The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure and Darwinism in American institutionalism
（Economics as social theory）
Routledge, 2004
- : pbk
- : hbk
Available at 49 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-510) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780415322522
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 appreciate.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction 1. Nature and Scope 2. Agency and Structure 3. Objections and Explorations Part 2: Charles Darwin and the Historian of Social Sciences 4. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the Human Species 5. Precursors of Emergence and Multiple Level Selection Theory Part 3: Veblenian Institutionalism 6. The Beginnings of Veblenian Institutionalism 7. Thorstein Veblen and Post-Darwinian Social Science 8. Veblen's Evolutionary Institutionalism 9. The Instinct of Workmanship and the Pecuniary Culture 10. A Wrong Turn: Science and the Machine Process 11. Missed Connections: Creative Synthesis and Emergent Evolution 12. TheLaunch of Institutional Economics and the Loss of its Veblenian Ballast Part 4: Four Institutionalist Journeys 13. John R. Commons and the Tangled Jungle 14. Wesley Mitchell and the Rebirth of Macroeconomics 15. Frank Knight as an Institutionalist Economist 16. The Evolution of Clarence Ayres 17. The Ayresian Dichotomies: Veblen Versus Ayres 18. The Decline of Institutional Economics Part 5: Reconstructing Institutional Economics 19. The Potential Revival of Veblenian Institutionalism 20. Elements of a Research Agenda for Institutional EconomicTheory
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: pbk ISBN 9780415322539
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 appreciate.
Table of Contents
- Part 1: Introduction
- 1. Nature and Scope
- 2. Agency and Structure
- 3. Objections and Explorations
- Part 2: Charles Darwin and the Historian of Social Sciences
- 4. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the Human Species
- 5. Precursors of Emergence and Multiple Level Selection Theory
- Part 3: Veblenian Institutionalism
- 6. The Beginnings of Veblenian Institutionalism
- 7. Thorstein Veblen and Post-Darwinian Social Science
- 8. Veblen's Evolutionary Institutionalism
- 9. The Instinct of Workmanship and the Pecuniary Culture
- 10. A Wrong Turn: 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 4: Four Institutionalist Journeys
- 13. John R. Commons and the Tangled Jungle
- 14. Wesley Mitchell and the Rebirth of Macroeconomics
- 15. Frank Knight as an Institutionalist Economist
- 16. The Evolution of Clarence Ayres
- 17. The Ayresian Dichotomies: Veblen Versus Ayres
- 18. The Decline of Institutional Economics
- Part 5: Reconstructing Institutional Economics
- 19. The Potential Revival of Veblenian Institutionalism
- 20. Elements of a Research Agenda for Institutional Economic Theory
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