The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism /
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946-
The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism / Geoffrey M. Hodgson. - 512 p. - Economics as social theory . - Economics as social theory. .
Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dramatis personae principes -- Introduction -- Nature and scope -- Agency and structure -- Objections and explanations -- Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences -- Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species -- Precursors of Emergence and multiple-level evolution -- Veblenian institutionalism -- The beginnings of veblenian institutionalism -- The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen -- Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism -- The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture -- A wrong turning : science and the machine process -- Missed connections : creative synthesis and emergent evolution -- The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its veblenian ballast -- Institutionalism into the wilderness -- John R. Commons and the tangled jungle -- Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics -- The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight -- The evolution of Clarence Ayres -- The Ayresian dichotomies : Ayres versus Veblen -- The decline of institutional economics -- Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics -- The potential revival of veblenian institutionalism -- On individuals and institutions -- Conclusion and beginning -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. IV. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Pt. V. 19. 20. 21.
0415322529 0415322537 (pbk.)
2003058641
Institutional economics
Evolutionary economics
Agent (Philosophy)
Social structure
HB99.5 / .H635 2004
330.1552
The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism / Geoffrey M. Hodgson. - 512 p. - Economics as social theory . - Economics as social theory. .
Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Dramatis personae principes -- Introduction -- Nature and scope -- Agency and structure -- Objections and explanations -- Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences -- Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species -- Precursors of Emergence and multiple-level evolution -- Veblenian institutionalism -- The beginnings of veblenian institutionalism -- The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen -- Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism -- The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture -- A wrong turning : science and the machine process -- Missed connections : creative synthesis and emergent evolution -- The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its veblenian ballast -- Institutionalism into the wilderness -- John R. Commons and the tangled jungle -- Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics -- The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight -- The evolution of Clarence Ayres -- The Ayresian dichotomies : Ayres versus Veblen -- The decline of institutional economics -- Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics -- The potential revival of veblenian institutionalism -- On individuals and institutions -- Conclusion and beginning -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. Pt. III. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. IV. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Pt. V. 19. 20. 21.
0415322529 0415322537 (pbk.)
2003058641
Institutional economics
Evolutionary economics
Agent (Philosophy)
Social structure
HB99.5 / .H635 2004
330.1552