The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American InstitutionalismThis 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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... Hodgson . This well - written and comprehensive study addresses the methodological and theoretical foundations of American Institutionalism , taking Thorstein Veblen's proposal for a ' post - Darwinian economics ' seriously . In this ...
... Hodgson . This well - written and comprehensive study addresses the methodological and theoretical foundations of American Institutionalism , taking Thorstein Veblen's proposal for a ' post - Darwinian economics ' seriously . In this ...
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... Hodgson has done more than anyone else to rehabilitate , indeed to reconstruct , the history - friendly evolutionary ... Hodgson's outstanding efforts to reconstruct economics from a penetrat- ing vision of the past . It offers an ...
... Hodgson has done more than anyone else to rehabilitate , indeed to reconstruct , the history - friendly evolutionary ... Hodgson's outstanding efforts to reconstruct economics from a penetrat- ing vision of the past . It offers an ...
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... Hodgson shows how econom- ics can end its painful isolation from the most creative findings of the other disciplines ... Hodgson's new book continues his search for a viable institutional economics . ... More than in any of his earlier ...
... Hodgson shows how econom- ics can end its painful isolation from the most creative findings of the other disciplines ... Hodgson's new book continues his search for a viable institutional economics . ... More than in any of his earlier ...
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Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism Geoffrey Martin Hodgson. PART IV Institutionalism into the wilderness 283 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle 285 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics ...
Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism Geoffrey Martin Hodgson. PART IV Institutionalism into the wilderness 283 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle 285 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics ...
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Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism Geoffrey Martin Hodgson. Preface My previous monograph - How Economics Forgot History - was about the limits of general theory in the social sciences . It favoured approaches ...
Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism Geoffrey Martin Hodgson. Preface My previous monograph - How Economics Forgot History - was about the limits of general theory in the social sciences . It favoured approaches ...
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