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...

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...

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