TY - BOOK AU - Louçã,Francisco AU - Perlman,Mark ED - European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. TI - Is economics an evolutionary science?: the legacy of Thorstein Veblen SN - 1840641959 AV - HB97.3. I8 2000 U1 - 330.092 PY - 2000/// CY - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA PB - E. Elgar KW - Veblen, Thorstein, KW - Evolutionary economics N1 - "European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy."; Includes bibliographical references; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; List of Contributors --; 1; Introduction --; Part I; Veblen's Challenge --; 2; Mind-sets, and why Veblen was Ineffectual --; 3; How can Economics be an Institutional-Evolutionary Science? --; 4; Thorstein Veblen and the Political Economy of the Ordinary: Hope and Despair --; 5; Veblen and Theories of the 'Firm' --; 6; Institutional Economics and the Specificity of Social Evolution: About the Contribution of J.R. Commons --; 7; The Significance of Clarence Ayres and the Texas School --; 8; Bounded Rationality, Institutionalism and the Diversity of Economic Institutions --; 9; Is Economics an Evolutionary Science? --; Part II; The Challenge Reconsidered --; 10; The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Wartime Studies for Peacetime Applications --; 11; Is Capitalism Doomed? A Nobel Discussion --; 12; An Institutionalist Foundation for Development Studies: Re-thinking Polanyi and Veblen on the Sonderweg --; 13; The Future's Unknowability: Keynes's Probability, Probable Knowledge and the Decision to Innovate --; Part III; Perspectives --; 14; Instituted Economic Processes, Increasing Returns and Endogenous Growth --; Index ER -