UID:
edocfu_9959232891502883
Format:
xxiii, 534 p.
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-35269-7
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1-134-35270-0
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0-429-23009-5
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0-415-32253-7
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0-203-30035-1
,
1-280-07676-3
Series Statement:
Economics as social theory
Content:
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.
Note:
Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.
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part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 Nature and scope -- chapter 2 Agency and structure -- chapter 3 Objections and explanations -- part Part II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences -- chapter 4 Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species -- chapter 5 Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution -- part Part III Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 6 The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 7 The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen -- chapter 8 Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism -- chapter 9 The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture -- chapter 10 A wrong turning -- Science and the machine process -- chapter 11 Missed connections -- Creative synthesis and emergent evolution -- chapter 12 The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its Veblenian ballast -- part Part IV Institutionalism into the wilderness -- chapter 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle -- chapter 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics -- chapter 15 The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight -- chapter 16 The evolution of Clarence Ayres -- chapter 17 The Ayresian dichotomies -- Ayres versus Veblen -- chapter 18 The decline of institutional economics -- part Part V Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics -- chapter 19 The potential revival of Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 20 On individuals and institutions -- chapter 21 Conclusion and beginning.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-32252-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-203-34893-1
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203300350
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