Ebook: 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.