Institutional Economics : : The Changing System / / Wendell Gordon.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Gordon, Wendell,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)

Wendell Gordon presents the philosophy of economic institutionalism clearly and evocatively, in the tradition of the pragmatism of Peirce, James, and Dewey. In Gordon's view, the institutionalism of Veblen and Ayres, the only indigenous American school of economic thought, offered the most hope for understanding and solving the economic problems of the twentieth century. The institutional approach—long known as the Texas School—looks at social order as ongoing process. The effort to explain how our attitudes have developed and how they are changed is central to this approach. Gordon argues that the dynamics of technical change, the institutionalism of behavior norms, human biology, and the resource endowment of the universe interact to create and change these attitudes. Gordon thoroughly analyzes both orthodox and Marxist economic approaches with regard to institutional economics. He also examines such other radical approaches as underconsumption and the single tax. There is a discussion of the procedures and problems involved in testing for the validity of institutional theory and the analysis of economic problems in the institutional frame of reference. In addition, inflation, energy, multinationals, property rights, business organization, unemployment, and other issues are considered from an institutional perspective.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- PART I Institutional Theory and Comparative Theory -- 2. The Institutional Theory of Economic Progress: Technology and Institutions -- 3. The Value Theory of Institutional Economics -- 4. Other Concepts of Value -- 5. Microeconomics and Decision Making -- 6. Macroeconomics and Decision Making -- 7. Dynamic Economic Process -- 8. Marxian and Other "Radical" Theories -- PART II Research Methods -- 9. Research Methods -- PART III Case Studies and Policy -- 10. The Institution of Property -- 11. The Limited-Liability Corporation -- 12. Government and Business -- 13. The Multinationals -- 14. The Energy-Ecology "Crisis" of the 1970s -- 15. The Monetary System -- 16. Inflation -- 17. The Job Guarantee -- 18. The Larger Picture -- Index