ABSTRACT

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 appreciat

part |2 pages

Part I Introduction

chapter 1|9 pages

Nature and scope

chapter 2|29 pages

Agency and structure

chapter 3|26 pages

Objections and explanations

part |2 pages

Part II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences

part |2 pages

Part III Veblenian institutionalism

chapter 7|33 pages

The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen

chapter 8|19 pages

Veblen’s evolutionary institutionalism

chapter 10|19 pages

A wrong turning

Science and the machine process

chapter 11|23 pages

Missed connections

Creative synthesis and emergent evolution

part |2 pages

Part IV Institutionalism into the wilderness

chapter 13|24 pages

John R. Commons and the tangled jungle

chapter 16|10 pages

The evolution of Clarence Ayres

chapter 17|24 pages

The Ayresian dichotomies

Ayres versus Veblen

chapter 18|20 pages

The decline of institutional economics

part |2 pages

Part V Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics

chapter 20|28 pages

On individuals and institutions

chapter 21|6 pages

Conclusion and beginning