Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: reader, critical, institutions, economic, evolution
Number of Pages: 301
Published: 2007-10-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1847200877
ISBN-13: 9781847200877

It is now widely acknowledged that institutions are a crucial factor in economic performance. Major developments have been made in our understanding of the nature and evolution of economic institutions in the last few years. This book brings together some key contributions in this area by leading internationally renowned scholars including Paul A. David, Christopher Freeman, Alan P. Kirman, Jan A. Kregel, Brian J. Loasby, J. Stanley Metcalfe, Bart Nooteboom and Ugo Pagano. This essential reader covers topics such as the relationship between institutions and individuals, institutions and econom

Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: evolutionary, association, european, political, economy, eaepe, key, reader, institutional, economics, modern, concepts
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-07
List price: $115.00
ISBN-10: 1840644745
ISBN-13: 9781840644746

In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This reader gathers together contributions from leading international authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary economics including Eileen Appelbaum, Benjamin Coriat, Giovanni Dosi, Sheila C. Dow, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Uskli Maki, Bart Nooteboom and Marc R. Tool. The emphasis is on key concepts such as learning, trust power, pricing and markets,with some essays devoted to methodology and others to the comparison of different forms of cap

Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: institutional, evolutionary, themes, essays, marx, shadows, darwin, economics
Number of Pages: 265
Published: 2007-12-30
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1847206190
ISBN-13: 9781847206190

"Economics in the Shadows of Darwin and Marx" examines the legacies of these two giants of thought for the social sciences in the twenty-first century. Darwin and Marx stand out as the supreme theorists of structural change in complex living systems. Yet their analytical approaches are very different, and the idea that Darwinism has application to the social sciences is not widely appreciated. This collection of essays establishes the importance of Darwinism for economics and other social sciences, and compares the Darwinian legacy with that of Marx.Critical realism is just one of the tendenci

Author: Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Pub
Keywords: evolutionary, institutions, evolution
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2000-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1858988241
ISBN-13: 9781858988245

This study of the future of economics as a viable discipline analyses some attempts to redirect theoretical economics to real world issues. It proposes a move away from mathematical formulizations and greater tolerance for the possibilitiy of learning from other sciences, especially biology.

Author: Geoffrey Hodgson
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Keywords: economics, society, cognition, bringing, evolution, life
Number of Pages: 394
Published: 1997-01-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0472084232
ISBN-13: 9780472084234

Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.This book is about the application to economics of evolutionary ideas from biology. It is not about selfish genes or determination of our behavior by genetic code. The idea that evolution supports a laissez-faire policy is rebutted. The conception of evolution as progress toward greater perfection, along with the competitive individualism so

Authors:Charles Camic, Geoffrey M Hodgson,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: studies, history, economics, routledge, veblen, writings, thorstein, essential
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2011-02-18
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0415777909
ISBN-13: 9780415777902

The 38 selections in the volume include complete texts of all of Veblen’s major articles and book reviews from 1882 to 1914, plus key chapters from his books The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), The Theory of Business Enterprise (1904) and The Instinct of Workmanship (1914). These writings present a wide range of Veblen’s most significant contributions, especially with respect to the philosophical and psychological foundations of economics, sociology, and other social sciences.  A thorougly comprehensive volume, this is the only collection to present Veblen’s writings in chronologi

Authors:Petra Hagen Hodgson, Petra Hagen Hodgson, Rolf Toyka
Publisher: Birkhäuser Architecture
Keywords: taste, cook, architect
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-05-03
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 376437621X
ISBN-13: 9783764376215

Since time immemorial, cooking and building have been among humanity s most basic occupations. Both of them are rooted in necessity, but both of them also possess a cultural as well as a sensory, aesthetic dimension. And while it is true that cooking is a transitory art form, it gives expression to the periods of human cultural history just as architecture does. Moreover, both arts accord a central role to the materials employed. Both involve measuring and proportioning, shaping and designing, assembling and composing. This book pursues the astonishing parallels and deeply rooted connections b