The evolution of institutional economics : Agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism

By:

Hodgson Geoffrey M

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Publication details: London Routledge 2004Description: 534p xxiiISBN:

9780415322539

Subject(s):

1. Institutional Economics2. Evolutionary Economics 3. Agent - Philosophy - Social Structure

DDC classification:

330.150000 HOD

Contents:

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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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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