The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism
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.
534 pages.
9780415322539, 9780415322522, 0415322537, 0415322529
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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
Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history