Institutions and Evolution of Capitalism

Contents:

PART I INTRODUCTION
1 Institutions and evolution of capitalism in Geoff Hodgson's
work 2
Francesca Gagliardi and David Gindis
PART II FOUNDATIONS
2 Geoff Hodgson on pluralism and historical specificity 14
Sheila C. Dow
3 Mathematical modelling in economics: seeking a rationale 29
Tony Lawson
4 Dissembling nature, elusive economy 44
Philip Mirowski
5 The rest of the resume: Veblen's teaching and service activities 62
Charles Camic
6 Hodgson, cumulative causation and reflexive economic agents 78
John B. Davis
PART III INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS
7 Bridging Original and New Institutional Economics? 93
John Groenewegen
8 Dimensionalizing institutions 110
Claude Menard
9 Juridical ontology and the theory of the firm 127
Simon Deakin
10 The corporation is not a nexus of contracts: it's an iPhone 142
Richard N. Langlois
11 Property, possession and knowledge 157
Ugo Pagano
12 Near misses - a capitalist aborted take-off and a no-show: the
United Provinces and Ming China 178
Andrew Tylecote
13 Institutions are neither autistic maximizers nor flocks of birds:
self-organization, power and learning in human organizations 194
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Alessandro Nuvolari
PART IV EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS
14 Industry and Trade : Marshall's magnificent dynamics 215
J. Stanley Metcalfe
15 Generalized Darwinism, the nature of selection and market
efficiency
231
J.W. Stoelhorst
16 Cultural evolution, group selection and downward causation 250
Viktor J. Vanberg
17 Generalized Darwinism, routines and morality 264
Jack Vromen
18 The ubiquity of habits and routines and their contribution to
management theory 282
Markus C. Becker
19 The role of selection processes in organizational evolution 299
Thorbjorn Knudsen
20 Why is evolutionary economics not an empirical science? 314
Kurt Dopfer and Jason Potts
PART V GEOFF HODGSON ON GEOFF HODGSON
21 A conversation with Geoff Hodgson 328
Francesca Gagliardi, David Gindis and Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Index 353

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