Table of Contents
I. Introduction: the institutionalist families in economics, II. Original institutionalism, 1. Schmoller and the German historical school, 2. Veblen's ‘evolutionary institutionalism’, 3. Hamilton: institutional economics, 4. Commons: organisations and institutions, 5. Polanyi and the economy as an instituted process, III. The Austrian school and ‘ordoliberalism’, 1. Menger: the organic and pragmatic approaches, 2. Hayek’s ‘Orders’ and ‘Rules’, 3. Eucken and ‘ordoliberalism’, IV. The new institutional economics, 1. Williamson and the mechanisms of governance, 2. North: formal and informal institutions, 3. Game theory and comparative institutional analysis, V. Contemporary European currents of thought, 1. Regulation theory: historical macroeconomics, 2. The economics of conventions: interpreting the rules, 3. Hodgson and the revival of the ‘old institutional economics’, VI. Unity and diversity of institutionalisms