The foundations of evolutionary institutional economics
Subtitle: generic institutionalism
By: Manuel Wäckerle
Series: Routledge advances in heterodox economics -- 18
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780415810760; 9780203798966
Subjects: Institutional economics; Evolutionary economics
Description: This text explores the foundational principles of evolutionary institutional economics, with the aim of establishing common ground for scientific self-sufficiency and openness to pluralism, and of establishing the theoretical, analytical and methodologcal categories of a Generic Institutionalism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-337) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: evolutionary economic programs; title: Evolution: ontological foundations; title: Ontologies and heuristics; title: Dualistic approaches; title: Naturalistic approaches; title: Remarks and reflections on Part I; title: Institutions: generic heuristics; title: What are institutions?; title: Veblen heuristics; title: Hayek heuristics; title: Schumpeter heuristics; title: Bourdieu heuristics; title: Synthesizing heuristics with generic rules; title: Remarks and reflections on Part II; title: Complexity: methodological considerations; title: From semantic to synthetic programming; title: An agent-based model of institutional change; title: Power within nethworks; title: Remarks and reflections on Part III; title: Policy realms; title: Institutions, technology and nature; title: Evolutioin of credit-rules; title: Democracy in practice.