Introduction -- Marxism, Darwinism, institutionalism -- Darwin and Marx at the crossroads -- Social Darwinism in anglophone academic journals -- Institutionalism versus Marxism : a debate with Alex Callinicos -- Three essays on critical realism -- The uncritical political affinities of critical...

J.W. Stoelhorst (2007), 'The Naturalist View of Universal Darwinism: An Application to the Evolutionary Theory of the Firm', in Geoffrey Hodgson (ed) (ed.), The Evolution of Economic Institutions: A Critical Reader, Chapter 13, Cheltenham, UK and Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 233-51 -- Geoffrey...

Throughout his long career as a professional scholar, Paul Dale Bush has been a cogent theorist, a model practitioner and an ardent defender of academic freedom and of democratic practices. Institutionalist Theory and Applications is the second of two volumes celebrating his career and his...

The appropriate role of mathematics in economics has been controversial for two hundred years, and has been a matter of ongoing debate as economics became more mathematical after the Second World War. Controversy has been heightened after extensive criticisms of models used for analysis,...

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...

Contributors to this volume argue that to understand capitalism in evolution, this diversity of systems and approaches must be taken into account and their individual evolutions analysed. This book represents a major understanding of the evolution of capitalism in the twenty first century and...

Rethinking Economics is a major contribution to the reconstruction of an economic theory appropriate to the 21st century. Just as major changes are occurring in the world economy, economics itself is on the brink of change. Orthodox economics is now widely criticized for its sterility and its...

For much of the twentieth century, mainstream economists have treated human agents in their models as if they were rational beings of unbounded computational capacity - the notorious 'Homo Economicus' of much economic theory. However, the patent inadequacies of this understanding of human nature...

Warren Samuels's second and concluding selection of essays focuses on early 20th century economists who, while relatively well-known in their times, have tended to be obscured by the more prominent stars of the discipline. It illustrates that economics is more diverse and complex than...