TABLE OF CONTENTS: Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
PRELUDE 1
CHAPTER ON: Prospective Volition 3
CHAPTER TWO: The Task at Hand 20
PART ONE: On Economic Institutions 29
CHAPTER THREE: Understanding Institutions 31
CHAPTER FOUR: The Content of Institutions 43
CHAPTER FIVE: Institutional Change 67
PART TWO: Volitional Pragmatism 85
CHAPTER SIX: Fixing Belief 87
CHAPTER SEVEN: Explaining 103
CHAPTER EIGHT: Prescribing and Predicting 115
CHAPTER NINE: Volitional Pragmatism 129
PART THREE: Volitional Pragmatism at Work 153
CHAPTER TEN: Thinking as a Pragmatist 155
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Volitional Pragmatism and Explanation 166
CHAPTER TWELVE: Volitional Pragmatism and the Evolution of Institutions 180
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Volitional Pragmatism and Economic Regulations 199
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Sufficient Reason 212
Bibliography 225
Index 235
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