• Contact

  • Newsletter

  • About us

  • Delivery options

  • Prospero Book Market Podcast

  • The Evolution of Institutional Economics

    The Evolution of Institutional Economics by Hodgson, Geoffrey M;

    Series: Economics as Social Theory;

      • GET 20% OFF

      • The discount is only available for 'Alert of Favourite Topics' newsletter recipients.
      • Publisher's listprice GBP 190.00
      • The price is estimated because at the time of ordering we do not know what conversion rates will apply to HUF / product currency when the book arrives. In case HUF is weaker, the price increases slightly, in case HUF is stronger, the price goes lower slightly.

        90 772 Ft (86 450 Ft + 5% VAT)
      • Discount 20% (cc. 18 154 Ft off)
      • Discounted price 72 618 Ft (69 160 Ft + 5% VAT)

    90 772 Ft

    db

    Availability

    Estimated delivery time: In stock at the publisher, but not at Prospero's office. Delivery time approx. 3-5 weeks.
    Not in stock at Prospero.

    Why don't you give exact delivery time?

    Delivery time is estimated on our previous experiences. We give estimations only, because we order from outside Hungary, and the delivery time mainly depends on how quickly the publisher supplies the book. Faster or slower deliveries both happen, but we do our best to supply as quickly as possible.

    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher Routledge
    • Date of Publication 4 March 2004

    • ISBN 9780415322522
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages560 pages
    • Size 234x156 mm
    • Weight 975 g
    • Language English
    • 0

    Categories

    Short description:

    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.

    More

    Long description:

    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.

    More

    Table of Contents:

    PART I Introduction 1 Nature and scope 2 Agency and structure 3 Objections and explanations PART II Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences 4 Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species 5 Precursors of emergence and multiple-level evolution PART III Veblenian institutionalism 6 The beginnings of Veblenian institutionalism 7 The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen 8 Veblen’s evolutionary institutionalism 9 The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture 10 A wrong turning: science and the machine process 11 Missed connections: creative synthesis and emergent evolution 12 The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its Veblenian ballast PART IV Institutionalism into the wilderness 13 John R. Commons and the tangled jungle 14 Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics 15 The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight 16 The evolution of Clarence Ayres 17 The Ayresian dichotomies: Ayres versus Veblen 18 The decline of institutional economics PART V Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics 19 The potential revival of Veblenian institutionalism 20 On individuals and institutions 21 Conclusion and beginning

    More