Classics in Institutional Economics, Part I

Warren J Samuels is Professor of Economics, Michigan State University. He is co-general editor of The Pickering Masters Works of Nikolai D Kondratiev. Malcolm Rutherford is Professor of Economics at the University of Victora.

Part I Volume 1 J M Clark: 'The Changing Basis of Economic Responsibility' (1916); 'Business Acceleration and the Law of Demand: A Technical Factor in Economic Cycles' (1917); 'Economics and Modern Psychology, I-II' (1918); 'Soundings in non-Euclidian Economics' (1921); 'Overhead Costs in Modern Industry, I-III' (1923); 'Conclusion to Studies in the Economics of Overhead Costs' (1923); 'The Relation Between Statics and Dynamics' (1927); 'Toward a Concept of Workable Competition' (1940); 'Realism and Relevance in the Theory of Demand' (1946); 'Mathematical Economists and Others: A Plea for Communicability' (1947); R L Hale: 'Law Making by Unofficial Minorities' (1920); 'The 'Physical Value' Fallacy in Rate Cases' (1921); 'Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-coercive State' (1923) Volume 2 M A Copeland: 'Economic Theory and the Natural Science Point of View' (1931); 'Some Problems in the Theory of National Income' (1932); 'Institutional Economics and Model Analysis' (1951); Institutionalism and Welfare Economics (1958); G C Means: 'Industrial Prices and Their Relative Inflexibility' (1935); 'Price Inflexibility and the Requirements of a Stabilizing Monetary Policy' (1935); 'Notes on Inflexible Prices' (1936); 'Monetary Institutions to Serve the Modern Economy' (1967); 'The Corporate Revolution' (1962); F C Millls: 'Price Movements and Related Changes' (1929); S Perlman: 'Labor and Capitalism in America' (1928); 'Economic Opportunity and Group Psychology' (1928) Volume 3 R G Tugwell: 'The Economic Basis for Business Regulation' (1921); 'Human Nature in Economic Theory' (1922); 'Human Nature and Social Economy, I-lI' (1930); 'The Theory of Occupational Obsolescence' (1931); 'The Principle of Planning and the Institution of Laissez-Faire' (1932); 'Government and Industry' (1933); E E Witte: 'Value of Injunctions in Labor Disputes' (1924); 'Old Age Security in the Social Security Act' (1937); 'What to Expect of Social Security' (1944); 'Role of the Unions in Contemporary Society' (1950); 'Institutional Economics as Seen by an Institutional Economist' (1954); 'Economics and Public Policy' (1957); A B Wolfe: 'Institutional Reasonableness and Value' (1936) Volume 4 C E Ayres: 'Values: Ethical and Economic' (1934); 'Fifty Years' Developments in Ideas of Human Nature and Motivation' (1936); 'The Co-ordinates of Institutionalism' (1951); 'The Knowing-and-Doing Process' (1961); 'Myths, Mores, Magic, and Status' (1961); 'The Industrial Way of Life' (1961); 'Ceremonial Patterns' (1962); 'Technology and Institutions' (1962); 'The Theory of Institutional Adjustment' (1967); J F Foster: 'The Theory of Institutional Adjustment' (1981); 'The Relation Between the Theory of Value and Economic Analysis' (1981); 'Effect of Technology on Institutions' (1981); W C Gordon: 'Capitalism and Technological Adaptation in Latin America' (1969); D Hamilton: 'Newtonianism and Darwinism in Economic Theory' (1970); H M Groves: 'Toward a Social Theory of Progressive Taxation' (1956); 'Institutional Economics and Public Finance' (1964); K Parsons: 'John R. Commons' Point of View' (1942); 'Institutional Aspects of Agricultural Development Policy' (1966); S H. Slichter: 'The Changing Character of American Industrial Relations' (1939); 'The Responsibility of Organized Labor for Employment' (1945); 'The Social Control of Industrial Relations' (1949); G Colm: 'The Ideal Tax System' (1934) 'Why Public Finance?' (1936); 'The Theory of Public Expenditures' (1936); 'In Defense of the Public Interest' (1960) Volume 5 J K Galbraith: 'The Theory of Social Balance' (1958); 'The Technostructure' (1971); 'The Revised Sequence' (1971); 'The Industrial System and the State' (1971); 'The Nature of Collective Intelligence' (1973); 'The Affirmative Purposes' (1973); 'The Emancipation of the State' (1973); J S Gambs: 'General Principles' (1946); A G Gruchy: 'Neoinstitutionalism and the Economics of Dissent' (1969); 'Government Intervention and the Social Control of Business: The Neoinstitutionalist Position' (1974); 'Planning in Contemporary Institutional Thought' (1982); H A Innis: 'Industrialism and Cultural Values' (1951); K W Kapp: 'Social Costs and Economic Science' (1950); 'The Nature and Significance of Social Costs' (1950); 'In Defense of Institutional Economics' (1968); G Myrdal: 'Introduction to An American Dilemma' (1944); 'American Ideals and the American Conscience' (1944); 'A Methodological Note on Valuations and Beliefs' (1944); 'A Methodological note on Facts and Valuations in Social Science' (1944); 'The Principle of Circular and Cumulative Causation' (1957); 'Political and Institutional Economics' (1978)