The institutionalist movement in American economics, 1918-1947 : science and social control / Malcolm Rutherford.

List of tables, x -- Acknowledgments, xi -- Part one. Introduction -- 1. American Institutionalism in the History of Economics, 3 -- 2. Understanding Institutional Economics, 15 -- Part two. Institutionalist careers -- 3. Walton Hamilton: Institutionalism and the Public Control of Business, 57 -- 4. Morris A. Copeland: institutionalism and statistics, 96 -- Part three. Centers of institutional economics -- 5. Institutionalism at Chicago and Beyond, 125 -- 6. Amherst and the Brookings Graduate School, 152 -- 7. Wisconsin institutionalism, 186 -- 8. Institutional Economics at Columbia University, 223 -- 9. The NBER and the foundations, 257 -- Part four. Challenges and changes -- 10. The Institutionalist Reaction to Keynesian Economics, 289 -- 11. Neoclassical Challenges and Institutionalist Responses, 309 -- Part five. Conclusion -- 12. Institutionalism in retrospect, 345 -- Archive Collections Consulted, 355 -- References, 357 -- Index, 393.