Overview

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. 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.

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Author:   Geoffrey M Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 3.20cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.975kg
ISBN:  

9780415322522

ISBN 10:   0415322529
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   04 March 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Introduction 1. Nature and Scope 2. Agency and Structure 3. Objections and Explorations Part 2: Charles Darwin and the Historian of Social Sciences 4. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the Human Species 5. Precursors of Emergence and Multiple Level Selection Theory Part 3: Veblenian Institutionalism 6. The Beginnings of Veblenian Institutionalism 7. Thorstein Veblen and Post-Darwinian Social Science 8. Veblen's Evolutionary Institutionalism 9. The Instinct of Workmanship and the Pecuniary Culture 10. A Wrong Turn: Science and the Machine Process 11. Missed Connections: Creative Synthesis and Emergent Evolution 12. TheLaunch of Institutional Economics and the Loss of its Veblenian Ballast Part 4: Four Institutionalist Journeys 13. John R. Commons and the Tangled Jungle 14. Wesley Mitchell and the Rebirth of Macroeconomics 15. Frank Knight as an Institutionalist Economist 16. The Evolution of Clarence Ayres 17. The Ayresian Dichotomies: Veblen Versus Ayres 18. The Decline of Institutional Economics Part 5: Reconstructing Institutional Economics 19. The Potential Revival of Veblenian Institutionalism 20. Elements of a Research Agenda for Institutional EconomicTheory

Reviews

Reconstructs the history of institutional economics in a quest for insights into theoretical problems of agency, structure, emergence, and social evolution. <br>- Journal of Economic Literature, 12/2004 <br>

"""Reconstructs the history of institutional economics in a quest for insights into theoretical problems of agency, structure, emergence, and social evolution."" -""Journal of Economic Literature, 12/2004"

Author Information

Geoffrey M. Hodgson is Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He was formerly a Reader in Economics at the University of Cambridge, UK. His previous books include How Economics Forgot History (2001) and Economics and Utopia (1999), both available from Routledge.

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