This year’s AFEE conference theme integrates our studies of cultural institutions and capitalism within the context of continual crises. ‘Crises’ here is meant to be broadly interpreted. Of course, all papers that fall within the traditions of Veblen, Commons, Polanyi, Galbraith, Feminist...

Paul D. Bush writes that “the idea of ‘progressive’ institutional change is a conceptual bridge” that makes institutional economics “a coherent body of thought in which theoretical and applied considerations can be tightly integrated” (Bush 1989, 455, emphasis added). As documented...

The conference is intended to bring together researchers who are interested in the evolutionary foundations of economic and social behavior, evolutionary game theory, and learning in games. We welcome submissions from anyone working in these areas, both theoretical and experimental/empirical work.

This year’s theme takes its cue from Veblen’s 1920 essay “The Vested Interests and the Common Man.” In it, he argues, the ownership of property in large holdings now controls the nation’s industry, and therefore it controls the conditions of life for those who are or who wish to be...

Submissions to the Arne Ryde workshop on “Identity, Image and Economic Behavior” are invited. Also, researchers with an interest in the topic are welcome to participate without presenting papers. An important purpose of the workshop is to gather researchers within the field to exchange ideas...

This conference is being held in conjunction with the EEA 2016 Annual Meeting.