This book tracks change in training institutions in four democracies over a century of development.

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Evolutionary economics is the most challenging unorthodox approach to economic theory that has been developed in the last decades. The present volume offers a s

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The essays in this book contribute to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change, providing a theoretical framework and empiric

The story of American Institutional Economics, from its foundations through its supremacy and subsequent decline is an extremely interesting one. Today with the

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