Cultural economics and theory : the evolutionary economics of David Hamilton / David Hamilton ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, David Boyce, 1918-

Series:

Routledge advances in heterodox economics ; 11.

Routledge advances in heterodox economics ; 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamilton, David Boyce, 1918-.

Hamilton, David Boyce.

Evolutionary economics.

Institutional economics.

Economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a century. In these articles he examines the philosophical foundations and practical problems of economics. The result of this is a unique institutionalist view of how economies evolve and how economics itself has evolved with them. Hamilton applies insight gained from his study of culture to send the message that human actions situated in culture determine our economic situation. Da

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Reflections from a student; Reflections from a colleague; Introduction; Part I: Economic thought and cultural economics; 1 Veblen and Commons: A case of theoretical convergence; 2 Hobson with a Keynesian twist; 3 Keynes, cooperation, and economic stability; 4 A theory of the social origins of the factors of production; 5 Ceremonial aspects of corporate organization; 6 The entrepreneur as a cultural hero; 7 Why is institutional economics not institutional?; 8 Drawing the poverty line at a cultural subsistence level

9 The great wheel of wealth: A reflection of social reciprocityPart II: Structural policy and economic theory; 10 Reciprocity, productivity, and poverty; 11 The political economy of poverty: Institutional and technological dimensions; 12 The U.S. economy: The disadvantages of having taken the lead; 13 The myth is not the reality: Income maintenance and welfare; 14 The paper war on poverty; 15 Welfare reform in the Reagan years: An institutionalist perspective; 16 What has evolutionary economics to contribute to consumption theory?; 17 Institutional economics and consumption

18 Thorstein Veblen as the first professor of marketing science19 On staying for the canoe building, or why ideology is not enough; 20 Ceremonialism as the dramatization of prosaic technology: Who did invent the coup de poing?; 21 Economics: Science or legend?; 22 The cure may be the cancer: Remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award; 23 Is institutional economics really "root and branch" economics?; 24 Rickshaws, treadmills, galley slaves, and Chernobyl; 25 Technology and institutions are neither; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-19679-6

1-282-31606-0

9786612316067

0-203-86984-2

9780203869840

OCLC:

526792354