文档介绍：The Evolution of
Economic Institutions
A Critical Reader
Edited by
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
Research Professor in Business Studies, University of
Hertfordshire, UK
IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR
EVOLUTIONARY POLITICAL ECONOMY
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy 2007
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
The evolution of economic institutions : a critical reader / edited by Geoffrey M.
Hodgson.
p. cm.
“In Association with The European Association for Evolutionary Political
Economy.”
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Evolutionary economics. 2. Institutional economics. I. Hodgson, Geoffrey
Martin, 1946–
2007
–dc22
2006102452
ISBN 978 1 84720 083 9 (cased)
ISBN 978 1 84720 087 7 (paperback)
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall
Contents
List of fi gures vii
List of tables viii
List of contributors ix
Preface xii
1. Introduction 1
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
PART I INDIVIDUALS, INTERACTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
2. Bounded rationality and institutionalism 19
Ugo Pagano
3. Individual and aggregate behaviour: of ants and men 34
Alan P. Kirman
4. Governance of transactions: a strategic process model 53
Bart Nooteboom
PART II ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PATH
DEPENDENCE
5. The political economy of the long wave