Evolution and Path Dependence in Economic Ideas

Past and Present

Edited by the late Pierre Garrouste, formerly Professor, ATOM, Paris, France and the late Stavros Ioannides, formerly Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University, Athens, Greece

自1980年代以来已经有了renewed interest in attempts to introduce a sense of history into economic literature. In this book, the authors argue that it is not possible to explain a state of the world without first analysing the processes that lead to that state.

The contributions collected in this volume share a critical stance towards the timelessness and a historical theorizing of mainstream economics.

‘The editors are to be congratulated for assembling a volume with considerable thematic integrity. It should be required reading for all those interested in path dependence and represents a useful starting place for those who want to know what all the fuss is about.’
– Mark Setterfield, Eastern Economic Journal