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The Evolution of Institutional Economics Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

The Evolution of Institutional Economics By Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

The Evolution of Institutional Economics by Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

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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.

The Evolution of Institutional Economics Summary

The Evolution of Institutional Economics by Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

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.

About Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

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.

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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NPB9780415322522
9780415322522
0415322529
The Evolution of Institutional Economics by Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Economics as Social Theory
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2004-03-04
560
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