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