Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. 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.

Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism

The Evolution of Institutional Economics

Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you need different theories and that historical contexts must be taken into account.

The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

How Economics Forgot History

In bringing together some of the most significant previously published papes by leading scholars inthe field, this collection explores the major changes in the 'new' and 'old' institutional economics, the developments of new approaches and the extension of applications to new areas which have taken place since the early 1990s.

Recent Developments in Institutional Economics

Ernesto Screpanti

Orthodox economics is now criticized for its limited applicability to real-world economic problems. New ideas in chaos theory, evolutionary modelling and institutional theory point to new, non-reductionist approaches. This work looks at core economic concepts in the light of these developments.

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