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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Geoffrey Martin Hodgson |
| ISBN: | 0415257166 9780415257169 0415257174 9780415257176 |
| OCLC Number: | 46319622 |
| Description: | xix, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. I. Introduction. 1. The limitations of general theory. 2. The problem of historical specificity -- pt. II. The nineteenth century: the German historical school and its impact. 3. Karl Marx and the specificity of the capitalist system. 4. The older historical school in Germany. 5. The historical school in the British Isles. 6. The methodological failure of the older historical school. 7. Out of Austria: Carl Menger and the Methodenstreit. 8. Alfred Marshall and the British Methodendiskurs. 9. The responses of the younger historical school in Germany -- pt. III. The twentieth century: from American institutionalism to the end of history. 10. Thorstein Veblen and the foundations of Institutionalism. 11. Early American institutionalism and the problem of historical specificity. 12. The theoretical manifesto of John Commons. 13. Talcott Parsons and the ascent of ahistorical sociology. 14. Death and counter-revolution at the London School of Economics. 15. John Maynard Keynes and his declaration of a General Theory. 16. The triumph of barren universality. 17. Institution blindness and the end of history -- pt. IV. The millennium: the second coming of history? 18. Are there universals in social and economic theory? 19. Property, culture, habits and institutions. 20. Exchange and production: property and firms. 21. A note on social formations and levels of abstraction. 22. An evolutionary perspective on the historical problem. 23. Invention is helpless without tradition. |
| Series Title: | Economics as social theory. |
| Responsibility: | Geoffrey M. Hodgson. |
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Abstract:
Hodgson studies the mid-nineteenth century school of economic theory which melded economics into historical and sociological study. He proposes that modern economic thought should once again take on social history as a meta-theory catalyst for explaining structural and institutional economic change.
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