Warren J. Samuels (ed.)

The Founding of Institutional Economics

Herausgeber: Samuels, Warren

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Produktbeschreibung

Institutional economics has been a major part of economic thought for the whole of the twentieth century, and today remains crucial to an understanding of the development of heterodox economics. The two principal publications that founded the school were Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class and Commons's A Sociological View of Sovereignty, both published in 1899. As a tribute to these two seminal works, Warren Samuels has assembled an exceptionally prestigious international group of scholars to produce this landmark volume celebrating the centenary. The chapters assess the work of Veblen and Commons and their influence on the school of institutional economics from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The contributions on Veblen appraise his anthropological analysis of consumption habits of American households from sociological, linguistic and feminist points of view. Conversely, the essays on Commons's work focus on the concepts of property, power and the relationship between legality and economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 669g
• ISBN-13: 9780415187572
• ISBN-10: 0415187575
• Artikelnr.: 25684090

Autorenporträt

Warren J. Samuels is Professor of Economics at Michigan State University, specializing in the history of economic thought, methodology, and law and economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I Veblen and Commons 1 Veblen, Commons, and the
Industrial Commission 2 Veblen and Commons and the concept of community
PART II Commons, A Sociological View of Sovereignty 3 An evolutionary
theory of the development of property and the state 4 Sovereignty and
withholding in John Commons's political economy 5 The identity and
significance of Commons's A Sociological View of Sovereignty 6 Commons,
sovereignty, and the legal basis of the economic system 7 John R.Commons's
"Political Economy and Law": Harbinger of A Sociological View of
Sovereignty and Legal Foundations of Capitalism PART III Veblen, The Theory
of the Leisure Class 8 Veblen and the vanishing of the "leisure class" 9
The Theory of the Leisure Class and the theory of demand 10 Veblen's
contribution to the instrumental theory of normative value 11 Veblen's
Theory of the Leisure Class and the genesis of evolutionary economics 12
Veblen's feminism in historical perspective 13 Veblen and the
anthropological perspective 14 The rhetoricality of Thorstein Veblen's
economic theorizing: A critical reading of The Theory of the Leisure Class
15 Georg Simmel and Thorstein Veblen on fashion fin de siècle 16 A
neoinstitutional theory of social change in Veblen's The Theory of the
Leisure Class