The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics

@inproceedings{Hodgson1994TheEC,
  title={The Elgar Companion to Institutional and Evolutionary Economics},
  author={Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Warren J. Samuels and Marc R. Tool},
  year={1994}
}
This reference work is a comprehensive introduction to the expanding field of institutional and evolutionary economics. It includes work by a number of leading international authors who synthesize perspectives from Veblenian, Schumpeterian and new institutionalist theoretical traditions. Including biographical and subject enteries, this book brings together widely-dispersed but theoretically congruent ideas. 
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