The founding of institutional economics : the leisure class and sovereignty / / edited by Warren J. Samuels

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455512703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1998
• ISBN: 1-134-66140-1; 1-280-33338-3; 0-203-02192-4; 0-203-27201-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Collana: Routledge studies in the history of economics
• Altri autori (Persone): SamuelsWarren J. <1933->
• Disciplina: 330.1
• Soggetti: Institutional economics; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Contributors; Introduction WARREN J.SAMUELS; Veblen and Commons; Veblen, Commons, and the Industrial Commission DAVID HAMILTON; Veblen and Commons and the concept of community EDYTHE S.MILLER; Commons, A Sociological View of Sovereignty; An evolutionary theory of the development of property and the state GLEN ATKINSON; Sovereignty and withholding in John Commons's political economy RICHARD DAWSON; The identity and significance of Commons's A Sociological View of Sovereignty RICHARD GONCE; Commons, sovereignty, and the legal basis of the economic system STEVEN G.MEDEMAJohn R.Commons's ~Political Economy and Law~: Harbinger of A Sociological View of Sovereignty and Legal Foundations of Capitalism WARREN J.SAMUELS; Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class; Veblen and the vanishing of the ~leisure class~ PHILIPPE BRODA; The Theory of the Leisure Class and the theory of demand E.RAY CANTERBERY; Veblen's contribution to the instrumental theory of normative value LEWIS E.HILL; Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class and the genesis of evolutionary economics GEOFFREY M.HODGSON; Veblen's feminism in historical perspective ANN JENNINGSVeblen and ; the anthropological perspective ANNE MAYHEW; The rhetoricality of Thorstein Veblen's economic theorizing: A critical reading of The Theory of the Leisure Class DAVID SEBBERSON AND MARGARET LEWIS; Georg Simmel and Thorstein Veblen on fashion fin de sicle RICK TILMAN; A neoinstitutional theory of social change in Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class MARC R.TOOL; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Institutional economics has been a major part of economic thought for the whole of the twentieth century, and today remains crucial to an understanding of the development of heterodox economics. The two principal publications that founded the school were Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class and Commons's A Sociological View of Sovereignty, both published in 1899. As a tribute to these two seminal works, Warren Samuels has assembled an exceptionally prestigious international group of scholars to produce this landmark volume celebrating the centenary. The chapters asses