Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World, by Charles J. Whalen (ed.)
Routledge, 2021 (forthcoming)
ISBN: 9780367749507
Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World (Routledge) will be released October 28, 2021. The book is edited by AFEE member Charles J. Whalen and includes chapters by Whalen and several AFEE members, including current and former board members. The full table of contents is provided below.
From editor Charles J. Whalen: “For several years, members of AFEE have talked about the need to update volumes that Marc Tool edited decades ago on key aspects of institutionalism. That talk is what inspired me to edit this volume, though it’s not a direct update — just my take on important institutionalist perspectives and methods via collaboration with several of my colleagues.”
You can preorder Institutional Economics: Perspectives and Methods in Pursuit of a Better World here.
Table of contents:
Part I: Perspectives
Institutions, technology, and instrumental value: a reassessment of the Veblenian dichotomy
WILLIAM T. WALLER
Reasonable value: John R. Commons and the Wisconsin tradition
CHARLES J. WHALEN
Market society and the institutional theory of Karl Polanyi
MICHELE CANGIANI
Grappling with an ever-changing economy: the evolution of post-Keynesian institutionalism
CHARLES J. WHALEN
Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism
JANICE PETERSON
Environmental sustainability in social context: an original institutionalist perspective
RICHARD V. ADKISSON
Part II: Methods
Investigational economics: a practitioner’s guide to economics in the tradition of John R. Commons
THOMAS KEMP
Institutional impact analysis: the situation, structure, and performance framework
SARAH S.H. KLAMMER, ERIC A. SCORSONE, AND CHARLES J. WHALEN
Myth busting: institutional economics and mythopoetics
MARY V. WRENN
Storytelling and institutional change: the power and pitfalls of economic narratives
CHARLES J. WHALEN
System dynamics, data science, and institutional analysis
MICHAEL J. RADZICKI