In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This timely reader gathers together seminal contributions from leading international authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary...

The subject of this volume is the human economy and its coevolutionary relationship with the natural world. This relationship is examined in three broad types of societies; hunter--gatherers, agriculturalists, and modern market economies. A growing body of scientific evidence has made it clear...

This reader gathers together contributions from authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary economics. The emphasis is on key concepts such as learning, trust power, pricing and markets, with essays devoted to methodology and others to the comparison of different forms of capitalism