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Habits of Thought : Veblen's Dynamics of Instinct and Institution
Lawton, Philip - 2018
evolutionary theory of the process of cultural development that unfolds in response to changing material and social conditions …
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A Darwinian Theory of Institutional Development Two Centuries Before Darwin
Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2015
How effective institutions come about and how they change are fundamental questions for economics and social science more generally. We show that these questions were central in the deliberations of lawyers in 17th century England, a critical historical juncture that has motivated important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014133038
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Institutions and Evolution of Capitalism in Geoff Hodgson’s Work (Introduction)
Gagliardi, Francesca - 2019
methodology, the history of economic thought and social theory more broadly. Hodgson's reputation as a prolific and important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866139
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The homo economicus under experimental attack
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2020
For non-economists, it is often difficult to understand why economists place so much emphasis on the self-interest motive. It is obvious that people act out of a variety of motives - gratitude, anger, social obligation and many, many other motives. There are several reasons why economists still...
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The application of evolutionary concepts in evolutionary economics
Cordes, Christian - 2014
There are several ways to incorporate evolutionary concepts into economic thinking. This article reviews the most important transfers of this kind into evolutionary economics. It broadly differentiates between approaches that draw on an analogy construction to the biological sphere, those that...
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The case for the public provisioning of the payments system
Maclachlan, Fiona C. - In: Journal of Post Keynesian economics 45 (2022) 2, pp. 263-280
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Institutions and agricultural economics : a theoretical framework from evolutionary institutionalism
Viana, João Garibaldi Almeida; Waquil, Paulo Dabad - In: Studies in agricultural economics 124 (2022) 1, pp. 1-9
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CasP's "differential accumulation" versus Veblen's "differential advantage" (revised and expanded)
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019
This paper clarifies a common misrepresentation of our theory of capital as power, or CasP. Many observers tend to box … CasP as an "institutionalist" theory, tracing its central process of "differential accumulation" to Thorstein Veblen … not Veblenians and certainly not institutionalists: Veblen's theory was evolutionary, while CasP is deeply dialectical …
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Alfred Marshall, evolutionary economics and climate change
Dow, Sheila C. - 2020
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