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Book SynopsisThroughout his long career as a professional scholar, Paul Dale Bush has been a cogent theorist, a model practitioner and an ardent defender of academic freedom and of democratic practices.
Institutionalist Theory and Applications is the second of two volumes celebrating his career and his contribution to neo-institutional economics.
This volume presents contributions by a distinguished group of institutionalist scholars: Edythe S. Miller, Philip A. Klein, James A. Cypher, F. Gregory Hayden, John Groenewegen, Peter Soderbaum, Charles M.A. Clark, Catherine Kavanagh and Janice Peterson. The book explores the interdependence of theory and policy and applies institutional theory to several problem areas of governance and performance.
This book will be of great interest to postgraduate students and academics in the field of institutional economics, evolutionary economics, political economy, history of economic theory, methodology, social economics, social policy and social value theory.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface 1. Instrumental Inquiry and Democratic Governance 2. The Interdependence of Theory and Practice 3. Normative Macroeconomics 4. Financial Dominance in the US Economy 5. Normative Analysis of Instituted Processes 6. Changes in the Institution of Corporate Governance 7. Science, Ethics and Democracy 8. How are we Doing? 9. Institutional Economics in the Classroom Index
