TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hodgson,Geoffrey Martin
AU  - Hodgson,Geoffrey Martin
TI  - The evolution of institutional economics: agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism 
T2  - Economics as social theory
SN  - 0415322529
AV  - HB99.5 .H635 2004
U1  - 330.1552 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Institutional economics
KW  - Evolutionary economics
KW  - Agent (Philosophy)
KW  - Social structure
N1  - 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
ER  -