Institutional Economics and the Theory of Social Value: Essays in Honor of Marc R. Tool

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Marc R. Tool’s Contributions to Institutional Economics....Pages 1-28
From Natural Value to Social Value....Pages 29-42
Institutionalism and Value Theory: An Identity Crisis?....Pages 43-57
The Urgency of Social Value Theory in Postmodern Capitalism....Pages 59-73
Pragmatism as a Normative Theory of Social Value and Economic Ethics....Pages 75-84
Efficiency Versus Equity: A False Dichotomy?....Pages 85-95
The Instrumental Value Principle and its Role....Pages 97-112
The Instrumental Efficiency of Social Value Theory....Pages 113-127
Instrumental Valuation in a Democratic Society....Pages 129-151
Compulsive Shift or Cultural Blind Drift? Literary Theory, Critical Rhetoric, Feminist Theory and Institutional Economics....Pages 153-178
Structural Change and the Compulsive Shift to Institutional Analysis....Pages 179-194
Beyond Technology to Democracy: The Tool Legacy in Instrumentalism....Pages 195-207
Marc Tool’s Social Value Theory and the Family....Pages 209-219
Market Failure and Regulatory Reform: Energy and Telecommunication Networks as a Case Study....Pages 221-240
Thorstein Veblen: Science, Revolution and the Persistence of Atavistic Continuities....Pages 241-248
Back Matter....Pages 249-281