Foreword | |
Preface | |
Institutionalism - A Basic Perspective | |
Dissent from Orthodox Theory | |
Economics: Allocation or Valuation? | p. 3 |
American Institutionalism: Premature Death, Permanent Resurrection | p. 26 |
Of Paradigms and Politics | p. 48 |
Mainstream Microeconomics | |
Demand Theory and the Economist's Propensity to Assume | p. 54 |
Mainstream Macroeconomics | |
Reinventing the Square Wheel: A Behavioral Assessment of Inflation | p. 81 |
Institutionalism and the New Classical Economics | p. 105 |
Positioning Institutional Economics | |
Institutionalism as a School - A Reconsideration | p. 115 |
Institutionalism and Concentrated Power | |
Confronting Power in Economics: A Pragmatic Evaluation | p. 125 |
Power and Economic Performance: The Institutionalist View | p. 147 |
The Role of the Public Sector | |
Institutionalist Reflections on the Role of the Public Sector | p. 181 |
Reagan's Economic Policies: An Institutionalist Assessment | p. 202 |
Applied Institutional Economics | |
Economic Activity and the Public Sector: Is Small Beautiful? | p. 215 |
An Institutionalist View of Development Economics | p. 224 |
The Neglected Institutionalism of Wesley Clair Mitchell: The Theoretical Basis for Business Cycle Indicators | p. 244 |
What's Natural about Unemployment? | p. 273 |
Institutionalism and the Obligations of the Economist | |
Institutionalism Confronts the 1990s | p. 283 |
Economic Policy and the Obligations of the Economist | p. 290 |
Why Be an Economist? | p. 298 |
Index | p. 313 |
About the Author | p. 327 |
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