03869nam 2200721Ia 450 991097512550332120251116204426.01-134-35269-71-134-35270-00-429-23009-50-415-32253-70-203-30035-11-280-07676-310.4324/9780203300350 (CKB)1000000000447793(SSID)ssj0000295872(PQKBManifestationID)11223600(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000295872(PQKBWorkID)10320046(PQKB)10431519(MiAaPQ)EBC200489(Au-PeEL)EBL200489(CaPaEBR)ebr10098868(CaONFJC)MIL7676(OCoLC)56573388(EXLCZ)99100000000044779320030813d2004 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe evolution of institutional economics agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism /Geoffrey M. Hodgson1st ed.London ;New York Routledge2004xxiii, 534 pEconomics as social theoryIntended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.0-415-32252-9 0-203-34893-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [453]-510) and index.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.This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.Economics as social theory.Institutional economicsEvolutionary economicsAgent (Philosophy)Social structureInstitutional economics.Evolutionary economics.Agent (Philosophy)Social structure.330.15/5283.15bclHodgson Geoffrey Martin1946-118455Hodgson Geoffrey Martin1946-118455MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910975125503321The evolution of institutional economics4484003UNINA