Commons opened Institutional Economics by declaring: "My point of view is based on my participation in collective activities, from which I here derive a theory of the part played by collective action in control of individual action." This sentence well summarizes the three key elements of this book-
Institutional Economics: Its Place in Political Economy
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β¦ Table of Contents
Cover Page
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Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION
PREFACE
X. REASONABLE VALUE
(I) VEBLEN
1. From Corporeal to Intangible Property
2. From Accrual of Wealth to Accrual of Ideas
3. From Managerial Transactions to Bargaining Transactions
4. Flow of Time and Lapse of Time
(II) FROM INDIVIDUALS TO INSTITUTIONS
(III) FROM NATURAL RIGHTS TO REASONABLE VALUE
(IV) SOVEREIGNTY
1. Executive Sovereignty
2. Legislative Sovereignty
3. Judicial Sovereignty
4. Analytical and Functional Law and Economics
(V) HABITUAL ASSUMPTIONS
(VI) IDEAL TYPES
1. The Pedagogic Ideal Type
2. The Propagandist Ideal Type
3. The Scientific Ideal Type
4. The Ethical Ideal Type
(VII) Collective Action
I. Politics
2. Merchant Capitalism, Employer Capitalism, Banker Capitalismβthe Industrial Stages
3. Scarcity, Abundance, Stabilizationβthe Economic Stages
4 Prices
5 The Police Power of Taxation
6 Accidents and UnemploymentβInsurance and Prevention
7 Personality and Collective Action
XI COMMUNISM, FASCISM, CAPITALISM
INDEX
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