Beyond Dissent: Essays in Institutional Economics Essays in Institutional Economics

Foreword by Marc R. Tool, Preface, PART I. INSTITUTIONALISM-A BASIC PERSPECTIVE, Dissent from Orthodox Theory, 1. Economics: Allocation or Valuation?, 2. American Institutionalism: Premature Death, Permanent Resurrection, 3. Of Paradigms and Politics, Mainstream Microeconomics, 4. Demand Theory and the Economist's Propensity to Assume, Mainstream Macroeconomics, 5. Reinventing the Square Wheel: A Behavioral Assessment of Inflation, 6. Institutionalism and the New Classical Economics, Positioning Institutional Economics, 7. Institutionalism as a School - A Reconsideration, PART II. INSTITUTIONALISM AND CONCENTRATED POWER, 8. Confronting Power in Economics: A Pragmatic Evaluation, 9. Power and Economic Performance: The Institutionalist View, PART III. THE ROLE OF THE PUBLIC SECTOR, 10. Institutionalist Reflections on the Role of the Public Sector, 11. Reagan's Economic Policies: An Institutionalist Assessment, PART IV. APPLIED INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS, 12. Economic Activity and the Public Sector: Is Small Beautiful?, 13. An Institutionalist View of Development Economics, 14. The Neglected Institutionalism of Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Theoretical Basis for Business Cycle Indicators, 15. What's Natural about Unemployment?, PART V. INSTITUTIONALISM AND THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE ECONOMIST, 16. Institutionalism Confronts the 1990s, 17. Economic Policy and the Obligations of the Economist, 18. Why Be an Economist?, Index, About the Author

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Klein, Philip A.