Vol. 42 Nbr. 2, June 2008

Index

• The 2008 Veblen-Commons Award recipient: Rick Tilman.
• Institutional economics as social criticism and political philosophy: remarks upon receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award.
• Purpose and measurement of national income and product.
• Deducing principles of economics from ontological constraints on information.
• Elites and structural inertia in Latin America: an introductory note on the political economy of development.
• Continuity and continuousness: the chain of ideas linking Peirce's synechism to Veblen's cumulative causation.
• Circular Cumulative Causation (CCC) a la Myrdal and Kapp--Political Institutionalism for minimizing social costs.
• Nicholas Kaldor and cumulative causation: public policy implications.
• Principle of circular and cumulative causation: fusing Myrdalian and Kaldorian growth and development dynamics.
• Circular and cumulative causation and the social fabric matrix.
• How Veblen generalized Darwinism.
• Eat grubs and live: the habit-instinct problem in Institutional Evolutionary Economics.
• Darwinian foundations for evolutionary economics.
• Globalization and the nation-state: dead or alive.
• "Did Yunus deserve the Nobel Peace Prize: microfinance or macrofarce?".
• Institutional and ecological economics: the role of technology and institutions in economic development.
• Unemployment insurance reform: elements of a social provisioning approach.
• John R. Commons' contributions to Health Care Reform in the 21st Century.
• A critical assessment of electricity and natural gas deregulation.
• Economic regulation--the lights are still on: a view from the inside.
• Institutional challenges in the development of the world's first worker-owned free trade zone.
• The role of risk as an FDI barrier to entry during transition: the case of Bulgaria.
• Arguing for policy space to promote development: Prebisch, Myrdal, and Singer.
• "Silent trade" and the supposed continuum between OIE and NIE.
• Logics of justification and logics of action.
• Confronting Foster's wildest claim: "only the instrumental theory of value can be applied!".
• Veblenian concept of habit and its relevance to the analysis of captured transition.
• Organizational learning: a process between equilibrium and evolution.
• Galbraith's heterodox teacher: Leo Rogin's historical approach to the meaning and validity of economic theory.
• Formal institutions in historical perspective.
• Veblen on interpreting Veblen.