Description: 1 Marc R. Tool's Contributions to Institutional Economics.- 2 From Natural Value to Social Value.- 3 Institutionalism and Value Theory: An Identity Crisis?.- 4 The Urgency of Social Value Theory in Postmodern Capitalism.- 5 Pragmatism as a Normative Theory of Social Value and Economic Ethics.- 6 Efficiency versus Equity: A False Dichotomy?.- 7 The Instrumental Value Principle and its Role.- 8 The Instrumental Efficiency of Social Value Theory.- 9 Instrumental Valuation in a Democratic Society.- 10 Compulsive Shift or Cultural Blind Drift? Literary Theory, Critical Rhetoric, Feminist Theory and Institutional Economics.- 11 Structural Change and the Compulsive Shift to Institutional Analysis.- 12 Beyond Technology to Democracy: The Tool Legacy in Instrumentalism.- 13 Marc Tool's Social Value Theory and the Family.- 14 Market Failure and Regulatory Reform: Energy and Telecommunication Networks as a Case Study.- 15 Thorstein Veblen: Science, Revolution and the Persistence of Atavistic Continuities.- References.- About the Authors.- Author Index.

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