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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820808703321
• Autore: Hodgson Geoffrey Martin <1946, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 1-134-35269-7; 1-134-35270-0; 0-429-23009-5; 0-415-32253-7; 0-203-30035-1; 1-280-07676-3
• Descrizione fisica: xxiii, 534 p
• Collana: Economics as social theory
• Classificazione: 83.15
• Altri autori (Persone): HodgsonGeoffrey Martin <1946->
• Disciplina: 330.15/52
• Soggetti: Institutional economics; Evolutionary economics; Agent (Philosophy); Social structure
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-510) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part Part I Introduction -- chapter 1 Nature and scope -- chapter 2 Agency and structure -- chapter 3 Objections and explanations -- part Part II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences -- chapter 4 Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species -- chapter 5 Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution -- part Part III Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 6 The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 7 The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen -- chapter 8 Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism -- chapter 9 The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture -- chapter 10 A wrong turning -- Science and the machine process -- chapter 11 Missed connections -- Creative synthesis and emergent evolution -- chapter 12 The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its Veblenian ballast -- part Part IV Institutionalism into the wilderness -- chapter 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle -- chapter 14 ; Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics -- chapter 15 The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight -- chapter 16 The evolution of Clarence Ayres -- chapter 17 The Ayresian dichotomies -- Ayres versus Veblen -- chapter 18 The decline of institutional economics -- part Part V Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics -- chapter 19 The potential revival of Veblenian institutionalism -- chapter 20 On individuals and institutions -- chapter 21 Conclusion and beginning.