Books

 

1994    Institutions in Economics: the Old and the New Institutionalism.  Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. xi, 225.  Reprinted 1995 and 1999; Paperback edition 1996; Arabic language edition 1998; Chinese language edition 1999. 

2011    The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947: Science and Social Control.  Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. xii, 410. 

 

Edited Books

 

1996    John R. Commons: Selected Essays, 2 vols.  Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels).  Routledge: London, pp. viii, 557.

 

1997    Classics in Institutional Economics: The Founders, 5 vols.  Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels).  Pickering and Chatto: London.

 

1998    The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics.  Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought.  Edited and with an Introduction.  Routledge: London, pp. xi, 333.

 

1998    From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism.  Annual Supplement to Volume 30 of History of Political Economy.  Edited (with Mary Morgan).  Duke University Press: Durham NC, pp. vi, 325.

 

1998    Classics in Institutional Economics II, 5 vols.  Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren J. Samuels).  Pickering and Chatto: London.

 

2003    Early American Economic Thought Series.  Series Editor (with William J. Barber, Marianne Johnson, Steven G. Medema, and Warren J. Samuels). Three parts and 15 volumes.  Pickering and Chatto: London.

 

2004    The Emergence of a National Economy: The United States from Independence to the Civil War.  Part II in the Early American Economic Thought Series, 6 vols.  Edited and with an Introduction (with Marianne Johnson and William J. Barber).  Pickering and Chatto: London.

 

Chapters

 

1988    Learning and Decision Making in Economics and Psychology: A Methodological Perspective.  In Peter Earl (ed.), Psychological Economics, Kluwer Academic: Boston, pp. 35-54.

 

1990    Introduction to the Transaction Edition.  J. R. Commons, Institutional Economics: Its Place in Political Economy  (1934), Transaction: New Brunswick, pp. xiii-xxxvii.

 

1990    Science, Self-Correction and Values: From Peirce to Institutionalism.  In John Lutz (ed.), Social Economics:  Retrospect and Prospect, Kluwer Academic: Boston, pp. 391-406.

 

1994    J.A. Hobson and American Institutionalism: Underconsumption and Technological Change.  In John Pheby (ed.), J. A. Hobson After Fifty Years, Macmillan: London, pp. 188-210.

 

1994    Predatory Practices or Reasonable Values?  American Institutionalists on the Nature of Market Transactions.  In Neil De Marchi and Mary Morgan (eds.), Higgling: Transactors and Their Markets in the History of Economics, Annual Supplement to Volume 26 of History of Political Economy , Duke University Press, Durham NC,  253-275.

 

1998    American Economics: The Character of the Transformation (with Mary Morgan).  In Mary Morgan and Malcolm Rutherford (eds.), From Interwar Pluralism to Postwar Neoclassicism.  Annual Supplement to Volume 30 of History of Political Economy, Duke University Press: Durham NC, pp.1-26.

 

1999    Institutionalism as "Scientific" Economics.  In Roger Backhouse and John Creedy (eds.), From Classical Economics to the Theory of the Firm: Essays in Honour of D. P. O'Brien, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, pp. 223-242.

 

2003    American Institutional Economics in the Interwar Period.  In Warren Samuels, John Davis, and Jeff Biddle, eds., A Companion to the History of Economic Thought.  Oxford: Blackwell, pp. 360-376.

 

2005    The Firm in American Institutional Economics.  In Marco Guidi and Daniela Parisi, eds., The Changing Firm.  Contributions from the History of Economic Thought.  Milan: Franco Angeli, pp. 38-51.

 

2005    Walton H. Hamilton and the Public Control of Business.  In Steven Medema and Peter Boettke, eds., The role of Government in the History of Political Economy.  Supplement to volume 37, History of Political Economy.  Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp.234-273.

 

2010    Chicago Economics and Institutionalism.  In Ross Emmett, ed., Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 25-39.

 

2012    Field, Undercover, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics, 1900-1930.  In Harro Maas and Mary Morgan (eds.), Histories of Observation in Economics.  Annual Supplement to Volume 44, History of Political Economy, Durham NC: Duke University Press, pp.185-205.

 

Journal Articles

 

1980    Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry.  History of Political Economy 12 (3): 434-440.  [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assesments, Routledge: London, 1993].

 

1981    Veblen on Owners, Managers and the Control of Industry: A Rejoinder.  History of Political Economy 13 (1): 156-158.  [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; and in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assesments, Routledge: London, 1993].

 

1981    Clarence Ayres and the Instrumental Theory of Value.  Journal of Economic Issues.  15 (3): 657-673.  [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought in Economics 5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and in M. Blaug (ed.) Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948, John Commons 1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992].

 

1983    Ayres's Instrumentalism: A Reply to Weinel.  Journal of Economic Issues 17 (3): 750-753.

 

1983    J.R. Commons's Institutional Economics.  Journal of Economic Issues 17 (3): 721-744.  [Reprinted in W. Samuels (ed.), Schools of Thought in Economics 5: Institutional Economics, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1988; and in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 33: Wesley Mitchell 1874-1948, John Commons 1862-1945, Clarence Ayres 1891-1972, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992].

 

1984    Rational Expectations and Keynesian Uncertainty: A Critique.  Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 6 (3): 377-387.

 

1984    Thorstein Veblen and the Processes of Institutional Change.  History of Political Economy 16 (3): 331-348.  [Reprinted in M. Blaug (ed.), Pioneers in Economics 32: Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929, Edward Elgar: Aldershot, 1992; in J.C. Wood (ed.), Thorstein Veblen: Critical Assessments, Routledge, London, 1993; in G. Hodgson (ed.) The Foundations of Evolutionary Economics: 1890-1973, Edward Elagar: Cheltenham, 1998, and in Rick Tilman (ed.),  The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003].

 

1987    Wesley Mitchell: Institutions and Quantitative Methods.  Eastern Economic Journal 13 (1): 63-73.

 

1989    Some Issues in the Comparison of Austrian and Institutional Economics.  Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 6: 159-172.

 

1989    What is Wrong with the New Institutional Economics (And What is Still Wrong with the Old)?  Review of Political Economy 1 (3): 299-318.

 

1990    Rational Expectations in the Light of Modern Psychology.  Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 7: 127-140.

 

1990    Allan Gruchy: 1906-1990.  Review of Political Economy 2 (3): 371-374.

 

1992    On Trusts and Technostructures: Veblen, Berle and Means, and Galbraith.  International Journal of Social Economics 19 (10/11/12): 268-278.

 

1992    Thorstein Veblen and the Problem of the Engineers.  International Review of Sociology, new series, 1992 (3): 125-150. [Reprinted in Rick Tilman (ed.), The Legacy of Thorstein Veblen, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003].

 

1995    The Old and the New Institutionalism: Can Bridges be Built?  Journal of Economic Issues 29 (2): 443-451.

 

1995    “The Criticism of Modern Civilization” by Wesley Mitchell.  Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford.  Journal of Economic Issues 29 (3): 663-682.

 

1996    "Money Economy and Modern Civilization" by Wesley Mitchell.  Edited and with an Introduction by Malcolm Rutherford.  History of Political Economy 28 (3): 317-357.

 

1997    American Institutionalism and the History of Economic Thought (Presidential address to the History of Economics Society).  Journal of the History of Economic Thought  19 (Fall): 178-195.

 

1998    Thorstein Veblen's Evolutionary Programme: A Promise Unfulfilled.  Cambridge Journal of Economics 22 (July): 463-477.

 

2000    The Prospects of Heterodox Economics: A Comment.  Journal of the History of Economic Thought 22 (June): 185-188.

 

2000    Institutionalism Between the Wars.  Journal of Economic Issues 24 (June): 291-303.

 

2000    Understanding Institutional Economics: 1918-1929.  Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 22 (September): 277-308.

 

2001    Institutional Economics: Then and Now.  Journal of Economic Perspectives 15 (Summer): 173-194. [Reprinted in Geoffrey M. Hodgson, ed., A Modern Reader in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.  Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2003, and in Nicholas Mercuro, ed., Law and Economics. Routledge: London, 2007].

 

2002    Morris A. Copeland: A Case Study in the History of Institutional Economics.  Journal of the History of Economic Thought 24 (September):261-290.

 

2003    On the Economic Frontier: Walton Hamilton, Institutional Economics, and Education.  History of Political Economy 35 (Winter): 611-653.

 

2004    Institutional Economics: The Term and its Meanings.  Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 22-A: 179-184.

 

2004    Institutional Economics at Columbia University.  History of Political Economy 36 (Spring): 31-78.

 

2005    “Who’s Afraid of Arthur Burns?” The NBER and the Foundations.  Journal of the History of Economic Thought 27 (June): 109-139.

 

2005    Comments on Four Papers on Economics and Human Heterogeneity.  American Journal of Economics and Sociology 64 (July):881-886.

 

2006    Wisconsin Institutionalism: John R. Commons and his Students.  Labor History 47 (May): 161-188.

 

2007    American Institutionalism and its British Connections.  European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 14 (June): 291-323.

 

2008    The Institutionalist Reaction to Keynesian Economics (with Tyler DesRoches).  Journal of the History of Economic Thought 30 (March): 29-48.

 

2008    John R. Commons’s “Reasonable Value.”  Edited and with an Introduction (with Warren Samuels and Charles Whalen).  Research in the History of Economic thought and Methodology 26-B: 223-307.

 

2008       A. W. (Bob) Coats, 1924-2007 (with Roger Backhouse, Bruce Caldwell, and Craufurd Goodwin).  History of Political Economy 40 (Fall): 421-446.

 

2009    Towards a History of American Institutional Economics (Presidential Address to the Association for Evolutionary Economics).  Journal of Economic Issues 43 (June): 309-318.

 

2009    Did Commons Have Few Followers? Continuing my Conversation with Yngve Ramstad.   Journal of Economic Issues 43 (June): 441-448.

 

2010    Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1947.   Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics 3 (Autumn): 47-71.

 

2011    The USDA Graduate School: Government Training in Statistics and Economics, 1921-1945.   Journal of the History of Economic Thought 33 (December): 419-447.

 

2012    Warren J. Samuels (1933-2011).   History of Economic Thought and Policy 2012 (1): 167-170.

 

Entries

 

1994    John R. Commons, 1862-1945.  In G. Hodgson, W. Samuels and M. Tool (eds.), Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics.  Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 63-69.

 

1994    Austrian and American (Old) Institutionalism.  In P.T. Boettke (ed.), Elgar Companion to Austrian Economics.  Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 529-534.

 

1998    John R. Commons.  In J. Davis, U. Maki, and W. Hands (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Methodology.  Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 67-69.

 

1998    Institutionalism.  In J. Davis, U. Maki, and W. Hands (eds.), The Handbook of Economic Methodology.  Edward Elgar: Aldershot, pp. 249-253.

 

2007    Mitchell, Wesley Clair (1874-1948).  International Encyclopedia of the social Sciences, 2^nd Edition.  Woodbridge CT: Macmillan Reference USA.

 

2008    Institutionalism, Old.  New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd Edition.  London: Macmillan.

 

2008    The National Bureau of Economic Research.  New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2^nd Edition.  London: Macmillan.

 

2009    Hamilton, Walton Hale (1881-1958).  Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law.  New Haven CT: Yale University Press.

 

2011    Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957).   Encyclopedia of Consumer Culture. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, pp. 832-833.