Geoffrey M. Hodgson

The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 840g
• ISBN-13: 9780415322539
• ISBN-10: 0415322537
• Artikelnr.: 21305745

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Introduction 1 Nature and scope 2 Agency and structure 3 Objections
and explanations PART II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences 4
Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species 5 Precursors of
emergence and multiple-level evolution PART III Veblenian institutionalism
6 The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism 7 The Darwinian mind of
Thorstein Veblen 8 Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism 9 The instinct of
workmanship and the pecuniary culture 10 A wrong turning: 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 IV Institutionalism into the wilderness 13 John R.
Commons and the tangled jungle 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of
macroeconomics 15 The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight 16 The
evolution of Clarence Ayres 17 The Ayresian dichotomies: Ayres versus
Veblen 18 The decline of institutional economics PART V Beginning the
reconstruction of institutional economics 19 The potential revival of
Veblenian institutionalism 20 On individuals and institutions 21 Conclusion
and beginning