The evolution of institutional economics : agency, structure and Darwinism in American institutionalism

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Part 1: Introduction 1. Nature and Scope 2. Agency and Structure 3. Objections and Explorations Part 2: Charles Darwin and the Historian of Social Sciences 4. Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the Human Species 5. Precursors of Emergence and Multiple Level Selection Theory Part 3: Veblenian Institutionalism 6. The Beginnings of Veblenian Institutionalism 7. Thorstein Veblen and Post-Darwinian Social Science 8. Veblen's Evolutionary Institutionalism 9. The Instinct of Workmanship and the Pecuniary Culture 10. A Wrong Turn: Science and the Machine Process 11. Missed Connections: Creative Synthesis and Emergent Evolution 12. The Launch of Institutional Economics and the Loss of its Veblenian Ballast Part 4: Four Institutionalist Journeys 13. John R. Commons and the Tangled Jungle 14. Wesley Mitchell and the Rebirth of Macroeconomics 15. Frank Knight as an Institutionalist Economist 16. The Evolution of Clarence Ayres 17. The Ayresian Dichotomies: Veblen Versus Ayres 18. The Decline of Institutional Economics Part 5: Reconstructing Institutional Economics 19. The Potential Revival of Veblenian Institutionalism 20. Elements of a Research Agenda for Institutional Economic Theory

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