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The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics
Edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Warren J. Samuels and Marc R. Tool
This authoritative and comprehensive reference work introduces the reader to the major concepts and leading contributors in the field of institutional and evolutionary economics.
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- Copyright
- List of Contributors to This Volume and Their Entries
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Adams, Walter
- Chapter 2: Administered Prices
- Chapter 3: Åkerman, Johan
- Chapter 4: Atomism and Organicism
- Chapter 5: Ayres, Clarence E.
- Chapter 6: Biology and Economics
- Chapter 7: Boulding, Kenneth Ewart
- Chapter 8: Capital Theory
- Chapter 9: Cartesianism in Economics
- Chapter 10: Clark, John Maurice
- Chapter 11: Class, Social, in Institutional Economics
- Chapter 12: Cognition, Cultural and Institutional Influences on
- Chapter 13: Commons, John R.
- Chapter 14: Comparative Economic Systems
- Chapter 15: Consumer Behaviour
- Chapter 16: Corporate Hegemony
- Chapter 17: Corporate Interdependence in the United States
- Chapter 18: Corporate Performance
- Chapter 19: Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Chapter 20: Cultural Hermeneutics and Evolutionary Economics
- Chapter 21: Culture
- Chapter 22: Cumulative Casusation
- Chapter 23: Darwinism, Influence of Economics on
- Chapter 24: Democracy, Economic
- Chapter 25: Determinism and Free Will
- Chapter 26: Development Policy
- Chapter 27: Development Theory
- Chapter 28: Dewey, John
- Chapter 29: Dillard, Dudley
- Chapter 30: Discrimination, Economic Policies to Counter
- Chapter 31: Distribution Theory
- Chapter 32: Distribution Theory, Institutionalist Critizue of Neoclassical
- Chapter 33: Dorfman, Joseph
- Chapter 34: Econometrics, The Limits of
- Chapter 35: Entropy and Economics
- Chapter 36: Environmental Policy
- Chapter 37: Environmental Theory
- Chapter 38: Etzioni, Amital Werner
- Chapter 39: Evolution and Optimality
- Chapter 40: Evolution, Formal Models of Economic
- Chapter 41: Evolution, Theories of Economic
- Chapter 42: Feminism
- Chapter 43: Firm, Boundaries of the
- Chapter 44: Firm, Theoru of the (I)
- Chapter 45: Firm, Theoru of the (II)
- Chapter 46: Fordism and Post-Fordism
- Chapter 47: Formalism in Economics
- Chapter 48: Foster, J. Fagg
- Chapter 49: Full Cost Pricing
- Chapter 50: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Chapter 51: Game Theory and Institutions
- Chapter 52: Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas
- Chapter 53: Giddens, Anthony
- Chapter 54: Goodwin, Richard M.
- Chapter 55: Growth, Limits to
- Chapter 56: Gruchy, Allan Garfield
- Chapter 57: Habits
- Chapter 58: Hale, Robert Lee
- Chapter 59: Hamilton, David
- Chapter 60: Hamilton, Walton Hale
- Chapter 61: Hayek, Friedrich A.
- Chapter 62: Hirsch, Fred
- Chapter 63: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Chapter 64: Hobson, John Atkinson
- Chapter 65: Household, Economics of the
- Chapter 66: Human Nature, Theory of
- Chapter 67: Industrial Policy
- Chapter 68: Industrial Structure and Power
- Chapter 69: Inflation
- Chapter 70: Information Theory in Economics
- Chapter 71: Innovation, National Systems of
- Chapter 72: Institutional Agricultural Theory and Policy
- Chapter 73: Institutional Economic Thought in Europe
- Chapter 74: Institutional Economics, Maryland School of
- Chapter 75: Institutional Economics, Wisconsin School of
- Chapter 76: Institutional Theory of Economic Policy
- Chapter 77: Institutionalism, 'Old' and 'New'
- Chapter 78: Institutions
- Chapter 79: Instrumental Value Theory
- Chapter 80: Interest Groups
- Chapter 81: International Economic Policy
- Chapter 82: International Economic Relations
- Chapter 83: Kaldor, Nicholas
- Chapter 84: Kalechi, Michal
- Chapter 85: Kapp, K. William
- Chapter 86: Keynes, John Maynard
- Chapter 87: Kindleberger, Charles P.
- Chapter 88: Kornai, Janos
- Chapter 89: Kuznetts, Simon Smith
- The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionaty Economics L-Z
- Copyright
- List of Contributors to Thie Volume and Their Entries
- Chapter 90: Labour Market
- Chapter 91: Law and Economics
- Chapter 92: Leibenstein, Harvey
- Chapter 93: Lock-in and Chreodic Development
- Chapter 94: Long Waves
- Chapter 95: Lowe, Adolph
- Chapter 96: Mactonomic Polocy (I)
- Chapter 97: Macroeconomic Polcy (II)
- Chapter 98: Market, Institutionalist View of the
- Chapter 99: Marshall, Alfred
- Chapter 100: Marx, Karl
- Chapter 101: Means, Gardiner C.
- Chapter 102: Methodocogical Individualism
- Chapter 103: Methodology
- Chapter 104: Microfoundations of Macroeconomic Competitiveness
- Chapter 105: Military Sector
- Chapter 106: Mitchell, Wesley Clair
- Chapter 107: Monetary Theory
- Chapter 108: Money, Evolution of
- Chapter 109: Myrdal, Gunnar
- Chapter 110: Natural Selection, Economic Evolution and
- Chapter 111: Need, Concept of
- Chapter 112: Nelson, Richard R.
- Chapter 113: Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory, Critique of
- Chapter 114: North, Douglass C.
- Chapter 115: Olson, Mancur
- Chapter 116: Part-Whole Relationships
- Chapter 117: Pasinetti, Luigi L.
- Chapter 118: Peirce, Charles Sanders
- Chapter 119: Perroux, François
- Chapter 120: Planning, National Economic
- Chapter 121: Planning, Theory of
- Chapter 122: Polanyi, Karl
- Chapter 123: Power (I)
- Chapter 124: Power (II)
- Chapter 125: Prigogine, Ilya
- Chapter 126: Property
- Chapter 127: Public Choice
- Chapter 128: Public Policy: Contributions of American Institutionalism
- Chapter 129: Public Utility Regulation, Institutionalist Contribution to
- Chapter 130: Rational Actor Models
- Chapter 131: Rationality and Maximization
- Chapter 132: Realism, Philosophical
- Chapter 133: Regulation, Theory of Economic
- Chapter 134: Régulation Theory, French
- Chapter 135: Richardson, George B.
- Chapter 136: Robinson, Joan
- Chapter 137: Rothschild, Kurt Wilhelm
- Chapter 138: Routines
- Chapter 139: Rules
- Chapter 140: Sahlins, Marshall
- Chapter 141: Schotter, Andrew
- Chapter 142: Schumacher, E. F.
- Chapter 143: Schumper, Joseph Alois
- Chapter 144: Selection, Units of Evolutionary
- Chapter 145: Shackle, George Lennox Shrman
- Chapter 146: Simon, Herbert Alexander
- Chapter 147: Smith, Adam
- Chapter 148: Social Change, Theory of
- Chapter 149: Spontaneous Order
- Chapter 150: Steindl, Josef
- Chapter 151: Tax Theory and Policy
- Chapter 152: Technical Change and Technological Regimes
- Chapter 153: Technology in Development Policy
- Chapter 154: Technology, Theory of
- Chapter 155: Time
- Chapter 156: Transaction
- Chapter 157: Trebing, Harry M.
- Chapter 158: Trust
- Chapter 159: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna
- Chapter 160: Uncertainty
- Chapter 161: Unemployment
- Chapter 162: Veblen, Thorstein
- Chapter 163: Veblenian Dichotomy and its Critics
- Chapter 164: Welfare Economic Theory
- Chapter 165: Williamson, Oliver E.
- Chapter 166: Winter, Sidney G., Jr.
- Chapter 167: Witte, Edwin Emil
- Chapter 168: Worker Participation
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- List of Contributors to This Volume and Their Entries
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Adams, Walter
- Chapter 2: Administered Prices
- Chapter 3: Åkerman, Johan
- Chapter 4: Atomism and Organicism
- Chapter 5: Ayres, Clarence E.
- Chapter 6: Biology and Economics
- Chapter 7: Boulding, Kenneth Ewart
- Chapter 8: Capital Theory
- Chapter 9: Cartesianism in Economics
- Chapter 10: Clark, John Maurice
- Chapter 11: Class, Social, in Institutional Economics
- Chapter 12: Cognition, Cultural and Institutional Influences on
- Chapter 13: Commons, John R.
- Chapter 14: Comparative Economic Systems
- Chapter 15: Consumer Behaviour
- Chapter 16: Corporate Hegemony
- Chapter 17: Corporate Interdependence in the United States
- Chapter 18: Corporate Performance
- Chapter 19: Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Chapter 20: Cultural Hermeneutics and Evolutionary Economics
- Chapter 21: Culture
- Chapter 22: Cumulative Casusation
- Chapter 23: Darwinism, Influence of Economics on
- Chapter 24: Democracy, Economic
- Chapter 25: Determinism and Free Will
- Chapter 26: Development Policy
- Chapter 27: Development Theory
- Chapter 28: Dewey, John
- Chapter 29: Dillard, Dudley
- Chapter 30: Discrimination, Economic Policies to Counter
- Chapter 31: Distribution Theory
- Chapter 32: Distribution Theory, Institutionalist Critizue of Neoclassical
- Chapter 33: Dorfman, Joseph
- Chapter 34: Econometrics, The Limits of
- Chapter 35: Entropy and Economics
- Chapter 36: Environmental Policy
- Chapter 37: Environmental Theory
- Chapter 38: Etzioni, Amital Werner
- Chapter 39: Evolution and Optimality
- Chapter 40: Evolution, Formal Models of Economic
- Chapter 41: Evolution, Theories of Economic
- Chapter 42: Feminism
- Chapter 43: Firm, Boundaries of the
- Chapter 44: Firm, Theoru of the (I)
- Chapter 45: Firm, Theoru of the (II)
- Chapter 46: Fordism and Post-Fordism
- Chapter 47: Formalism in Economics
- Chapter 48: Foster, J. Fagg
- Chapter 49: Full Cost Pricing
- Chapter 50: Galbraith, John Kenneth
- Chapter 51: Game Theory and Institutions
- Chapter 52: Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas
- Chapter 53: Giddens, Anthony
- Chapter 54: Goodwin, Richard M.
- Chapter 55: Growth, Limits to
- Chapter 56: Gruchy, Allan Garfield
- Chapter 57: Habits
- Chapter 58: Hale, Robert Lee
- Chapter 59: Hamilton, David
- Chapter 60: Hamilton, Walton Hale
- Chapter 61: Hayek, Friedrich A.
- Chapter 62: Hirsch, Fred
- Chapter 63: Hirschman, Albert O.
- Chapter 64: Hobson, John Atkinson
- Chapter 65: Household, Economics of the
- Chapter 66: Human Nature, Theory of
- Chapter 67: Industrial Policy
- Chapter 68: Industrial Structure and Power
- Chapter 69: Inflation
- Chapter 70: Information Theory in Economics
- Chapter 71: Innovation, National Systems of
- Chapter 72: Institutional Agricultural Theory and Policy
- Chapter 73: Institutional Economic Thought in Europe
- Chapter 74: Institutional Economics, Maryland School of
- Chapter 75: Institutional Economics, Wisconsin School of
- Chapter 76: Institutional Theory of Economic Policy
- Chapter 77: Institutionalism, 'Old' and 'New'
- Chapter 78: Institutions
- Chapter 79: Instrumental Value Theory
- Chapter 80: Interest Groups
- Chapter 81: International Economic Policy
- Chapter 82: International Economic Relations
- Chapter 83: Kaldor, Nicholas
- Chapter 84: Kalechi, Michal
- Chapter 85: Kapp, K. William
- Chapter 86: Keynes, John Maynard
- Chapter 87: Kindleberger, Charles P.
- Chapter 88: Kornai, Janos
- Chapter 89: Kuznetts, Simon Smith
- The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionaty Economics L-Z
- Copyright
- List of Contributors to Thie Volume and Their Entries
- Chapter 90: Labour Market
- Chapter 91: Law and Economics
- Chapter 92: Leibenstein, Harvey
- Chapter 93: Lock-in and Chreodic Development
- Chapter 94: Long Waves
- Chapter 95: Lowe, Adolph
- Chapter 96: Mactonomic Polocy (I)
- Chapter 97: Macroeconomic Polcy (II)
- Chapter 98: Market, Institutionalist View of the
- Chapter 99: Marshall, Alfred
- Chapter 100: Marx, Karl
- Chapter 101: Means, Gardiner C.
- Chapter 102: Methodocogical Individualism
- Chapter 103: Methodology
- Chapter 104: Microfoundations of Macroeconomic Competitiveness
- Chapter 105: Military Sector
- Chapter 106: Mitchell, Wesley Clair
- Chapter 107: Monetary Theory
- Chapter 108: Money, Evolution of
- Chapter 109: Myrdal, Gunnar
- Chapter 110: Natural Selection, Economic Evolution and
- Chapter 111: Need, Concept of
- Chapter 112: Nelson, Richard R.
- Chapter 113: Neoclassical Microeconomic Theory, Critique of
- Chapter 114: North, Douglass C.
- Chapter 115: Olson, Mancur
- Chapter 116: Part-Whole Relationships
- Chapter 117: Pasinetti, Luigi L.
- Chapter 118: Peirce, Charles Sanders
- Chapter 119: Perroux, François
- Chapter 120: Planning, National Economic
- Chapter 121: Planning, Theory of
- Chapter 122: Polanyi, Karl
- Chapter 123: Power (I)
- Chapter 124: Power (II)
- Chapter 125: Prigogine, Ilya
- Chapter 126: Property
- Chapter 127: Public Choice
- Chapter 128: Public Policy: Contributions of American Institutionalism
- Chapter 129: Public Utility Regulation, Institutionalist Contribution to
- Chapter 130: Rational Actor Models
- Chapter 131: Rationality and Maximization
- Chapter 132: Realism, Philosophical
- Chapter 133: Regulation, Theory of Economic
- Chapter 134: Régulation Theory, French
- Chapter 135: Richardson, George B.
- Chapter 136: Robinson, Joan
- Chapter 137: Rothschild, Kurt Wilhelm
- Chapter 138: Routines
- Chapter 139: Rules
- Chapter 140: Sahlins, Marshall
- Chapter 141: Schotter, Andrew
- Chapter 142: Schumacher, E. F.
- Chapter 143: Schumper, Joseph Alois
- Chapter 144: Selection, Units of Evolutionary
- Chapter 145: Shackle, George Lennox Shrman
- Chapter 146: Simon, Herbert Alexander
- Chapter 147: Smith, Adam
- Chapter 148: Social Change, Theory of
- Chapter 149: Spontaneous Order
- Chapter 150: Steindl, Josef
- Chapter 151: Tax Theory and Policy
- Chapter 152: Technical Change and Technological Regimes
- Chapter 153: Technology in Development Policy
- Chapter 154: Technology, Theory of
- Chapter 155: Time
- Chapter 156: Transaction
- Chapter 157: Trebing, Harry M.
- Chapter 158: Trust
- Chapter 159: Ullmann-Margalit, Edna
- Chapter 160: Uncertainty
- Chapter 161: Unemployment
- Chapter 162: Veblen, Thorstein
- Chapter 163: Veblenian Dichotomy and its Critics
- Chapter 164: Welfare Economic Theory
- Chapter 165: Williamson, Oliver E.
- Chapter 166: Winter, Sidney G., Jr.
- Chapter 167: Witte, Edwin Emil
- Chapter 168: Worker Participation