Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federationof Microeconomics
Referat of the History of Economic Thought; "Basic directions of American institutionalism"
by the student of IFF the 1st course group 1-1Rasstrizhenkovadvisor: Viktor Vladimirovich Slobodyanik
Moscow, 2012
of contents
Intro1:
.1 Social and psychological direction
.2 Socio-Legal Direction
.3 Empirical (opportunistic and statistical) area2:
.1 Assessment and the role of teaching Veblen
.2 Assessment and the role of teaching Commons
.3 Assessment and the role of teaching Mitchell
.4 Negative aspects of American institucionalism
proceeding to the main direction of the American instituionalizma, we explain the concept of institutionalism. "institutionalism" comes from the word "institution" or "institution", which refers to the custom of the order passed in the society, as well as the customary law or in the form of institutions. Proponents of institutionalism was referred to as a superstructural institutions and economic phenomenon: the state, the family, private property, corporations, a system of currency. No specific concept of "institution" still bore already marked ideological: it meant a desire to expand the subject matter of economics, the inclusion of Analysis of non-economic phenomena and institutions.originated in the US at the turn of the XIX and XX centuries. He also called old-institutionalism institutionalism amerikanskimy Its founders were three ekonosimta: Thorstein Veblen, John Commons and Wesley Clair Mitchell. Consideration of the flow as a whole shows how during the crisis "institutionalism" as a special course bourgeois political economy and today has many supporters. Question about the features of institutionalism is so more interesting that after the Second World War it was during one of the leading contemporary bourgeois political economy. It is represented by such bourgeois theorists such as Galbraith, L. Rooks, W. Gordon, G. Myrdal, R. Heilbroner, etc. What is the old institutsianalizm? (1) are two types of institutionalism "stvary" and "new." The first school was an old institutionalism institutionalism, it is also often called the American institutionalism. Old institutionalism has the following characteristics :) Denial of optimization. Key actors are treated not as a maximiser (or minimizer) of the objective function, and how these different "habits" - acquired the...
