1. Cf. Evolutionary Economics: Volume I Foundations of Institutional Thought, Journal of Economic Issues 21 (September 1987) and Evolutionary Economics Volume II, Institutional Theory and Policy, Journal of Economic Issues 21 (December 1978). Both were re-published in 1988 by M.E. Sharpe, Inc., Armonk, New York.
2. This is the view of Joseph Dorfman as expressed in his introduction to Walton H. Hamilton, Industrial Policy and Institutionalism, Selected Essays (Clifton, NJ: Augustus M. Kelley, 1974), p. 25. For another and interesting (and more recent) account of the origins of institutionalism cf. Anne Mayhew, “The Beginnings of Institutionalism,” Journal of Economic Issues 21 (September 1987): 971–998.
3. Quoted in ibid., p. 27.
4. Ibid., p. 28, footnote 29.
5. John R. Commons, Institutional Economics: Its Place In Political Economy, Two volumes published in one. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1934 and 1959).