The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Dramatis personae principes; Introduction; Nature and scope; Agency and structure; Objections and explanations; Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences; Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species; Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution; Veblenian institutionalism; The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism; The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen; Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism; The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture.;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. 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 appreciate