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1047569
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b801939
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The evolution of economic institutions : : a critical reader /\ edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson.
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Cheltenham, UK ;Northampton, MA :: Edward Elgar,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) :: illustrations
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1283220342
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: 1847207030
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: 9781283220347
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: 9781847207036
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1847200834
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1847200877
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9781847200839
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9781847200877
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| Notes
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"In association with The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy."
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-288) and index.
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| Contents
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Individuals, interactions and institutions -- Bounded rationality and institutionalism / Ugo Pagano -- Individual and aggregate behaviour : of ants and men / Alan P. Kirman -- Governance of transactions : a strategic process model / Bart Nooteboom -- Economic development and path dependence -- The political economy of the long wave / Christopher Freeman -- Instituted economic processes, increasing returns and endogenous growth / J. Stanley Metcalfe -- Path dependence, its critics and the quest for 'historical economics' / Paul A. David -- The market in economic thought -- Financial markets and economic development : myth and institutional reality / Jan Kregel -- The meaning of the market : comparing Austrian and institutional economics / Philippe Dulbecco and Veronique Dutraive -- Comparative evolutionary perspectives -- Uncertainty, intelligence and imagination : George Shackle's guide to human progress / Brian J. Loasby -- Evolutionary themes in the Austrian tradition : Menger, von Wieser and Schumpeter on institutions and rationality / Richard Arena and Sandye Gloria-Palermo -- The relevance today of Edith Penrose's Theory of the growth of the firm / Margherita Turvani -- The naturalist view of universal Darwinism : an application to the evolutionary theory of the firm / J.W. Stoelhorst.
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| Abstract
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Major developments have been made in our understanding of the nature and evolution of economic institutions over the years. This book covers topics such as the relationship between institutions and individuals, institutions and economic development, the nature and role of markets, and the theory of institutional evolution.
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Evolutionary economics.
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Institutional economics.
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Theory.
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Evolutionary economics.
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Institutional economics.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.01
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HB97.3.E896 2007eb
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| Added Entry
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Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin,1946-
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European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
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