Institutionalists as Dissenters: Why Were Institutionalists So Dissatisfied with Economics During the Post-War Period

Marco Cavalieri and Felipe Almeida

Journal of Economic Issues, 2015, vol. 49, issue 2, 475-482

Abstract: In the 1940s and 1950s, institutionalist economists rapidly lost their influence over American economics. In parallel, a new mainstream emerged, and the institutionalists were extremely dissatisfied with the path taken by the economic science. We analyze the opinions and feelings about this context to shed light on the institutionalists’ understanding of the new mainstream economics. We construct a historical account of the institutionalists’ dissatisfaction with post-war economics based on archival material from the personal papers of Allan Gruchy, John Gambs, John Blair, and Clarence Ayres. In the period analyzed, the economists, who would later found the Association for Evolutionary Economics, acted as dissenters rather than institutionalists. In part, this explains the pluralistic path that the association has followed ever since its foundation.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2015.1042781

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