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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... society . The relationship between individual agency and social structure is uppermost and equal in importance to the problem of historical specificity for all the social sciences . It involves key questions of ontology and explanation ...
... society . The relationship between individual agency and social structure is uppermost and equal in importance to the problem of historical specificity for all the social sciences . It involves key questions of ontology and explanation ...
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... society . Darwinism provides an over - arching framework of explanation , but without claiming to explain every aspect or detail . In in- sisting that evolution was dependent on its context , Darwin ( 1859 , p . 314 ) himself declared ...
... society . Darwinism provides an over - arching framework of explanation , but without claiming to explain every aspect or detail . In in- sisting that evolution was dependent on its context , Darwin ( 1859 , p . 314 ) himself declared ...
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... society . Some significant Darwinian approaches to social theory appeared in the 1890s , in Britain and the United States . One of the contributors was Thorstein Veblen . Yet this aspect of his work is often neglected today . This book ...
... society . Some significant Darwinian approaches to social theory appeared in the 1890s , in Britain and the United States . One of the contributors was Thorstein Veblen . Yet this aspect of his work is often neglected today . This book ...
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