Cultural economics and theory : the evolutionary economics of David Hamilton

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Routledge advances in heterodox economics ; 11

Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics Ser. ; v.11

Includes bibliographical references and index

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

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