The Evolution of Institutional Economics or Coaching for Peak Employee Performance

The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure, and Darwinism in American Institutionalism

Author: G Hodgson

The story of American Institutional Economics, from its foundations through its supremacy and subsequent decline is an extremely interesting one. Today with the return of Darwinian ideas to social sciences, changes in psychology and a revival of pragmatist philosophy, the intellectual conditions for a revival and reconstruction of American Institutionalism are arguably in place.

Few are better qualified to provide an authoritative, wide-ranging account of the rise, fall and potential rebirth of institutional economics than Geoffrey Hodgson. This well-written comprehensive study offers an interpretation of Veblen and American Institutionalism that places Darwinism at the center. In this and other aspects, it challenges prevailing accounts of the nature and potential of American Institutionalism.

The author's position as one of the most important economists in the world is becoming cemented by his marvelous history of important books. This book will only add to his status. The book will be readand re-read by academics and students economics, philosophy and sociology.

Table of Contents:

	List of illustrations
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Dramatis personae principes
Pt. I	Introduction	1
1	Nature and scope	3
2	Agency and structure	12
3	Objections and explanations	41
Pt. II	Darwinism and the Victorian social sciences	67
4	Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer and the human species	69
5	Precursors of Emergence and multiple-level evolution	99
Pt. III	Veblenian institutionalism	123
6	The beginnings of veblenian institutionalism	125
7	The Darwinian mind of Thorstein Veblen	143
8	Veblen's evolutionary institutionalism	176
9	The instinct of workmanship and the pecuniary culture	195
10	A wrong turning : science and the machine process	206
11	Missed connections : creative synthesis and emergent evolution	225
12	The launch of institutional economics and the loss of its veblenian ballast	248
Pt. IV	Institutionalism into the wilderness	283
13	John R. Commons and the tangled jungle	285
14	Wesley Mitchell and the triumph of macroeconomics	309
15	The maverick institutionalism of Frank Knight	322
16	The evolution of Clarence Ayres	345
17	The Ayresian dichotomies : Ayres versus Veblen	355
18	The decline of institutional economics	379
Pt. V	Beginning the reconstruction of institutional economics	399
19	The potential revival of veblenian institutionalism	401
20	On individuals and institutions	419
21	Conclusion and beginning	447
	Bibliography	453
	Index	520

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Coaching for Peak Employee Performance: A Practical Guide to Supporting Employee Development

Author: Bill Foster

Managers and supervisors need to sharpen their coaching skills if they want their employees to achieve high performance. This guidebook details what those in charge can do to develop their staff and help them meet, and even exceed, organizational expectations.