Journal article
Veblen's evolutionary programme: a promise unfulfilled
Abstract
This article examines in detail the way in which Veblen attempted to give theoretical expression to the programme for an evolutionary economics that he outlined in methodological terms in his 1898 essay ‘Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?’ Veblen's conception of ‘Darwinian’ methodological principles led him to attempt to develop a theory of institutional evolution that was purely ‘causal’ in nature. This theory was never …
Authors
Rutherford M
Journal
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 463–477
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Publication Date
July 1, 1998
DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.cje.a013729
ISSN
0309-166X