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The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Colección:Economics as social theory.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Dramatis personae principes; Introduction; Nature and scope; Agency and structure; Objections and explanations; Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences; Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species; Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution; Veblenian institutionalism; The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism; The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen; Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism; The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture.