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Economics and Institutions - Geoffrey M. Hodgson

Economics and Institutions

A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics
Buch | Softcover
264 Seiten
1989
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0277-6 (ISBN)
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Geoffrey Hodgson aims to demonstrate that social institutions play a central role in moulding preferences and guiding action.
Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodox thinking, Geoffrey Hodgson maintains that social institutions play a central and essential role in molding preferences and guiding action: institutions are regarded as enabling action rather than merely providing constraints. From this perspective, the author takes on the ‘free marketers’ such as Milton Friedman and the ‘new institutionalism’ of Oliver Williamson. He argues against the neo-classical and Austrian views of the operation of markets, offering instead a convincing new synthesis of the work of Keynes, Veblen, Simon and Marx. Taking up the implications of his argument, Hodgson calls for a radically new policy perspective based on structural reform and institutional intervention.

This work will be required reading for economics students in their second and third years and will be of interest to students and academics throughout the social sciences.

Geoffrey Hodgson is Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire.

PART 1 PRELUDE: Introduction and Outline

On Methodology and Assumptions PART 2 A FAREWELL TO `ECONOMIC MAN': Behind Methodological Individualism

The Maximisation Hypothesis

The Rationalist Conception of Action

Action and Institutions

PART 3 ELEMENTS OF AN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS: Contracts and Property Rights

Markets as Institutions

Firms and Markets

Expectations and the Limits to Keynes

Directions and Policy Implications

Erscheint lt. Verlag 30.4.1989
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 227 mm
Gewicht 510 g
Themenwelt Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre Mikroökonomie
ISBN-10 0-7456-0277-0 / 0745602770
ISBN-13 978-0-7456-0277-6 / 9780745602776
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