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BL
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967830
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b722200
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Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin,1946-
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| Title & Author
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The evolution of institutional economics : : agency, structure, and Darwinism in American institutionalism /\ Geoffrey M. Hodgson.
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| Publication Statement
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 2004.
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| Series Statement
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Economics as social theory
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1 online resource (xxiii, 534 pages)
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| ISBN
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0203300351
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: 6610076766
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: 9780203300350
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: 9786610076765
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0415322529
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0415322537
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| Notes
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Intended as a continuation of the discussion begun in his How economics forgot history.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 453-510) and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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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.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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Evolutionary economics.
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Institutional economics.
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Social structure.
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Agent (Philosophy)
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BUSINESS ECONOMICS-- Economics-- Theory.
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Evolutionary economics.
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Institutional economics.
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Social structure.
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| Dewey Classification
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330.15/52
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| LC Classification
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HB99.5.H635 2004eb
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83.15bcl
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| Added Entry
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Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin,1946-
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