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,...

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...

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