The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism / Geoffrey M. Hodgson.

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 -- Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Nature and scope -- 2. Agency and structure -- 3. Objections and explanations -- Pt. II. Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences -- 4. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species -- 5. Precursors of Emergence and multiple-level evolution -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. 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 -- Pt. V. Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics -- 19. The potential revival of veblenian institutionalism -- 20. On individuals and institutions -- 21. Conclusion and beginning -- Bibliography -- Index.