Classics in Institutional Economics, Part II : Pickering & Chatto : 9781851965151 : 01 Oct 1998 : Extensive selections from Thorstein Veblen and John Rogers Commons are provided along with the key contributions from other founders such as Richard T Ely, Wesley Clair Mitchell, Robert F Hoxie and Walton H Hamilton. The selections range in date from 1896 to 1957, with most of the material falling between 1898 and 1925. The collection includes those contributions that served to define the movement in its early years: Veblen's 'Why is Economics Not An Evolutionary Science?' (1898), Common's 'Sociological View of Sovereignty' (1899-1900), Hoxie's 'On the Empirical Method of Economic Instruction' (1901), Mitchell's 'The Rationality of Economic Activity' (1910), and Hamilton's 'The Institutional Approach to Economic Theory' (1918). The selections, however, go beyond these early contributions and allow the reader to chart the development of the various research programs established by the found