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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... Marx and Sraffa ( 1991 ) Economics and Evolution ( 1993 ) Economics and Utopia ( 1999 ) Evolution and Institutions ( 1999 ) How Economics Forgot History ( 2001 ) Series edited by Tony Lawson University of Cambridge Social Theory.
... Marx and Sraffa ( 1991 ) Economics and Evolution ( 1993 ) Economics and Utopia ( 1999 ) Evolution and Institutions ( 1999 ) How Economics Forgot History ( 2001 ) Series edited by Tony Lawson University of Cambridge Social Theory.
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... Social Theory is experiencing something of a revival within economics . Critical analyses of the particular nature of the subject matter of social studies and of the types of method , categories and modes of explanation that can ...
... Social Theory is experiencing something of a revival within economics . Critical analyses of the particular nature of the subject matter of social studies and of the types of method , categories and modes of explanation that can ...
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... social sci- ences , biology and psychology . The earlier insights have been neglected partly because of the latterly ... theory that is pro- posed here does not explain social phenomena in biological terms . It does not see Darwinism as ...
... social sci- ences , biology and psychology . The earlier insights have been neglected partly because of the latterly ... theory that is pro- posed here does not explain social phenomena in biological terms . It does not see Darwinism as ...
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... social theory , and shows how they can begin to resolve some of the theoretical problems that are at the top of the contemporary agenda . In both this and the preceding volume there is a lengthy excursion into a neglected history of ...
... social theory , and shows how they can begin to resolve some of the theoretical problems that are at the top of the contemporary agenda . In both this and the preceding volume there is a lengthy excursion into a neglected history of ...
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... social theory , using past ideas as raw material . I am also keen to point out the modern relevance of many of the old institutionalist ideas . Hence , in my discussion of Veblen in particular , I oc- casionally quote modern authors who ...
... social theory , using past ideas as raw material . I am also keen to point out the modern relevance of many of the old institutionalist ideas . Hence , in my discussion of Veblen in particular , I oc- casionally quote modern authors who ...
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