Sufficient Reason: Volitional Pragmatism and the Meaning of Economic Institutions

by Daniel W. Bromley

In the standard analysis of economic institutions--which include social conventions, the working rules of an economy, and entitlement regimes (property relations)--economists invoke the same theories they use when analyzing individual behavior. In this profoundly innovative book, Daniel Bromley challenges these theories, arguing instead for "volitional pragmatism" as a plausible way of thinking about the evolution of economic institutions. Economies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691124191
• ISBN13: 9780691124193
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"

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Review of Sufficient Reason

This book of Daniel Bromley is very interesting. The author offers an original reassessment of J.R.Commons' volitional pragmatism. Very good!