Is economics an evolutionary science? : the legacy of Thorstein Veblen /
edited by Francisco Louçã, Mark Perlman.
- ix, 234 pages ; 24 cm
"European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy.".
Includes bibliographical references.
List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Veblen's Challenge -- Mind-sets, and why Veblen was Ineffectual -- How can Economics be an Institutional-Evolutionary Science? -- Thorstein Veblen and the Political Economy of the Ordinary: Hope and Despair -- Veblen and Theories of the 'Firm' -- Institutional Economics and the Specificity of Social Evolution: About the Contribution of J.R. Commons -- The Significance of Clarence Ayres and the Texas School -- Bounded Rationality, Institutionalism and the Diversity of Economic Institutions -- Is Economics an Evolutionary Science? -- The Challenge Reconsidered -- The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Wartime Studies for Peacetime Applications -- Is Capitalism Doomed? A Nobel Discussion -- An Institutionalist Foundation for Development Studies: Re-thinking Polanyi and Veblen on the Sonderweg -- The Future's Unknowability: Keynes's Probability, Probable Knowledge and the Decision to Innovate -- Perspectives -- Instituted Economic Processes, Increasing Returns and Endogenous Growth -- Index. 1. Part I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Part II. 10. 11. 12. 13. Part III. 14.