1st Edition
Classics in Institutional Economics, Part I, Volume 1 The Founders - Key Texts, 1890-1946
578 Pages
by
Routledge
578 Pages
by
Routledge
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Institutional economics is recognised as a peculiarly American development in economics — nothing quite like it emerged in Britain or continental Europe. As such, a knowledge of the literature of institutionalism is a necessary part of understanding the history of American economics and American social thought more broadly.
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Copy Texts, Acknowledgements, Introduction, THORSTEIN BUNDE VEBLEN, 1 Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?, 2 Excerpts from The Theory of the Leisure Class, 3 The Preconceptions of Economic Science, I-III, 4 Industrial and Pecuniary Employments, 5 Excerpts from The Theory of Business Enterprise, 6 The Place of Science in Modern Civilization
Biography
Edited by Malcolm Rutherford and Warren J. Samuels. Thorstein Bunde Veblen (1857-1929), Veblen was one of the most iconoclastic, critical, seminal and widely influential American economists, his work becoming a foundation for Institutional Economics.
