Edith Penrose's "The theory of the growth of the firm" has offered key ingredients to an evolutionary approach to the growth of the firm. The entrepreneur enlivened by Edith Penrose in that book is revisited here, considering the role played by institutions in his decision-making. It is argued...

Chapter 12 of Keynes' General Theory has concepts and analytical links with strong identification with the ones used by the so-called institutional approaches. This essay highlights what seems to have been anticipated by Keynes on the research core of institutional economics, mainly based on his...

As Transaction Cost Economics evolved and entwined with the name of Oliver Williamson, it has absorbed a tension 'between an intuitive commitment to realism...and his commitment to some core presumptions of mainstream economics' [Hodgson 1998]. Most TCE scholars seem to rely on the latter...