The evolution of economic institutions : a critical reader / edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson. - Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, c2007. - xii, 301 p. : ill ; 24 cm.

"In association with The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.".



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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Evolutionary economics.
Institutional economics.

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