The psychoanalytic approach and its potential for a better understanding of economic and social phenomena -- The perspective of psychoanalysis : an outline -- Implications for the study of economic and social phenomena -- Psychoanalysis and social change -- Some controversial aspects of...

In this work we analyse the main interpretations of ownership in Original Institutional Economics (OIE) and their links with pragmatist psychology and psychoanalysis. We consider Thorstein Veblen's notion of ownership as a relation of possession of persons, and John R.Commons's distinction...

The aim of this work is to illustrate the psychological contributions of Pragmatism and of the Original Institutional Economics (also referred to as OIE or institutionalism), and their relevance for improving the process of social valuing and, as a consequence, the effectiveness of policy...