A Modern Reader in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics

Edited by Geoffrey Hodgson ()

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Abstract: In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This timely reader gathers together seminal contributions from leading international authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary economics including Eileen Appelbaum, Benjamin Coriat, Giovanni Dosi, Sheila C. Dow, Bengt-åke Lundvall, Uskali Mäki, Bart Nooteboom and Marc R. Tool. The emphasis is on key concepts such as learning, trust, power, pricing and markets, with some essays devoted to methodology and others to the comparison of different forms of capitalism. An extensive introduction places the contributions in the context of the historical and theoretical background of

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
ISBN: 9781840644746
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Contributions to an institutionalist theory of price determination

Marc R. Tool

Ch 2 The learning economy: challenges to economic theory and policy

Bengt-Åke Lundvall

Ch 3 The meaning and role of power in economic theories

David Young

Ch 4 Discovery versus creation: implications of the Austrian view of the market process

Sandye Gloria-Palermo

Ch 5 Determinants of supplier dependence: an empirical study

Hans Berger, Niels Noorderhaven and Bart Nooteboom

Ch 6 The institutional embeddedness of economic change: an appraisal of the 'evolutionary' and 'regulationist' research programmes

Benjamin Coriat and Giovanni Dosi

Ch 7 The one world and the many theories

Uskali Mäki

Ch 8 Methodological pluralism and pluralism of method

Sheila Dow

Ch 9 Institutions and employment performance in different growth regimes

Eileen Appelbaum and Ronald Schettkat

Ch 10 Emergence of path-dependent mixed economies in Central Europe

Bernard Chavance and Eric Magnin

Ch 11 Varieties of capitalism and varieties of economic theory

Geoffrey Hodgson

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