Charles J. Whalen is Research Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, USA. For over three decades he has contributed to institutional economics, national economic policy discussions, equitable regional development, and worker engagement in business decision-making. This is his fifth book.

• Introduction. the institutionalist tradition in economics PART I. PERSPECTIVES (1) Institutions, technology, and instrumental value: a reassessment of the Veblenian dichotomy (2) Reasonable value: John R. Commons and the Wisconsin tradition (3) Market society and the institutional theory of Karl Polanyi (4) Grappling with an ever-changing economy: the evolution of post-Keynesian institutionalism (5) Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism (6) Environmental sustainability in social context: an original institutionalist perspective PART II. METHODS (7) Investigational economics: a practitioner’s guide to economics in the tradition of John R. Commons (8) Institutional impact analysis: the situation, structure, and performance framework (9) Myth busting: institutional economics and mythopoetics (10) Storytelling and institutional change: the power and pitfalls of economic narratives (11) System dynamics, data science, and institutional analysis

"This collection is a most valuable updating of institutionalist perspectives and methods.…This book should be read by all institutional economists and others interested in learning about contemporary institutionalism."- Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, Canada"Charles Whalen has assembled a team of distinguished authors….This lively, timely collection bridges original institutionalism with newer developments in theory and practice such as environmental sustainability, culture and gender, financialization, and innovative modeling."- Deborah M. Figart, Stockton University, USA"This collection of essays reaffirms the vitality and ongoing potential of the original institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons and others. This is an important and stimulating book for institutional researchers in economics and other disciplines."- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Loughborough University London, UK

Charles J. Whalen is Research Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, USA. For over three decades he has contributed to institutional economics, national economic policy discussions, equitable regional development, and worker engagement in business decision-making. This is his fifth book.

• Introduction. the institutionalist tradition in economics PART I. PERSPECTIVES (1) Institutions, technology, and instrumental value: a reassessment of the Veblenian dichotomy (2) Reasonable value: John R. Commons and the Wisconsin tradition (3) Market society and the institutional theory of Karl Polanyi (4) Grappling with an ever-changing economy: the evolution of post-Keynesian institutionalism (5) Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism (6) Environmental sustainability in social context: an original institutionalist perspective PART II. METHODS (7) Investigational economics: a practitioner’s guide to economics in the tradition of John R. Commons (8) Institutional impact analysis: the situation, structure, and performance framework (9) Myth busting: institutional economics and mythopoetics (10) Storytelling and institutional change: the power and pitfalls of economic narratives (11) System dynamics, data science, and institutional analysis

"This collection is a most valuable updating of institutionalist perspectives and methods.…This book should be read by all institutional economists and others interested in learning about contemporary institutionalism."- Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, Canada"Charles Whalen has assembled a team of distinguished authors….This lively, timely collection bridges original institutionalism with newer developments in theory and practice such as environmental sustainability, culture and gender, financialization, and innovative modeling."- Deborah M. Figart, Stockton University, USA"This collection of essays reaffirms the vitality and ongoing potential of the original institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons and others. This is an important and stimulating book for institutional researchers in economics and other disciplines."- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Loughborough University London, UK

Charles J. Whalen is Research Fellow at the Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy, University at Buffalo, USA. For over three decades he has contributed to institutional economics, national economic policy discussions, equitable regional development, and worker engagement in business decision-making. This is his fifth book.

• Introduction. the institutionalist tradition in economics PART I. PERSPECTIVES (1) Institutions, technology, and instrumental value: a reassessment of the Veblenian dichotomy (2) Reasonable value: John R. Commons and the Wisconsin tradition (3) Market society and the institutional theory of Karl Polanyi (4) Grappling with an ever-changing economy: the evolution of post-Keynesian institutionalism (5) Culture, gender, and feminist institutionalism (6) Environmental sustainability in social context: an original institutionalist perspective PART II. METHODS (7) Investigational economics: a practitioner’s guide to economics in the tradition of John R. Commons (8) Institutional impact analysis: the situation, structure, and performance framework (9) Myth busting: institutional economics and mythopoetics (10) Storytelling and institutional change: the power and pitfalls of economic narratives (11) System dynamics, data science, and institutional analysis

"This collection is a most valuable updating of institutionalist perspectives and methods.…This book should be read by all institutional economists and others interested in learning about contemporary institutionalism."- Malcolm Rutherford, University of Victoria, Canada"Charles Whalen has assembled a team of distinguished authors….This lively, timely collection bridges original institutionalism with newer developments in theory and practice such as environmental sustainability, culture and gender, financialization, and innovative modeling."- Deborah M. Figart, Stockton University, USA"This collection of essays reaffirms the vitality and ongoing potential of the original institutional economics of Thorstein Veblen, John R. Commons and others. This is an important and stimulating book for institutional researchers in economics and other disciplines."- Geoffrey M. Hodgson, Loughborough University London, UK