Economics and institutions

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Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the actions of `economic man'. In a challenge to orthodox thinking, Geoffrey Hodgson maintains that social institutions play a central and essential role in moulding preferences and guiding action: institutions are regarded as enabling action rather than merely providing constraints. From this perspective, the author takes on the `free marketeers' such as Milton Friedman and the `new institutionalism' of Oliver Wil...Visa mer