Considers the future of economics as a viable discipline.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds.

Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you need different theories and that historical contexts must be taken into account.

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.

How evolutionary ideas can be used to reconstruct economics.

This book is a major contribution to the current revolution in economic theory.

Content Description #Includes bibliographical references and index.

A collection of essays on the economic theories of Marx and Sraffa, and the links between them, which go on to examine the work of American institutionalists like Veblen.