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Tables of Contents for Is Economics an Evolutionary Science?
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Figures
vii
List of Tables
viii
List of Contributors
ix
Introduction
3
10
Francisco Louca
Mark Perlman
PART I - VEBLEN'S CHALLENGE
Mind-sets, and why Veblen was Ineffectual
13
12
Mark Perlman
How can Economics be an Institutional-Evolutionary Science?
25
16
Phillip A. O'Hara
Thorstein Veblen and the Political Economy of the Ordinary: Hope and Despair
41
13
Alan W. Dyer
Veblen and Theories of the `Firm'
54
10
Anne Mayhew
Institutional Economics and the Specificity of Social Evolution: About the Contribution of J.R. Commons
64
19
Laure Bazzoli
The Significance of Clarence Ayres and the Texas School
83
12
James R. Stanfield
Jacqueline B. Stanfield
Bounded Rationality, Institutionalism and the Diversity of Economic Institutions
95
19
Ugo Pagano
Is Economics an Evolutionary Science?
114
13
Frank Hahn
PART II - THE CHALLENGE RECONSIDERED
The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Wartime Studies for Peacetime Applications
127
11
Albert Jolink
Is Capitalism Doomed? A Nobel Discussion
138
15
Francisco Louca
An Institutionalist Foundation for Development Studies: Re-thinking Polanyi and Veblen on the Sonderweg
153
20
Eyup Ozveren
The Future's Unknowability: Keynes's Probability, Probable Knowledge and the Decision to Innovate
173
24
Marco Crocco
Part III - PERSPECTIVES
Instituted Economic Processes, Increasing Returns and Endogenous Growth
197
30
J.S. Metcalfe
Index
227