Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A writer on institutes or elementary rules, especially on legal institutes. Same as
institutist .
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- adjective Of, pertaining to, or following
institutionalism - noun An adherent of
institutionalism (in various senses)
Etymologies
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Examples
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More recent work in economics, which is also called institutionalist, attempts to explain features of institutions by emphasizing the costs of transactions, the inevitable incompleteness of contracts, and the problems
Philosophy of Economics Hausman, Daniel M. 2008
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These are the core phenomena that "free market" idea strippers have relegated to the "institutionalist" basement of the academic economics curriculum.
Bill Totten's Weblog 2009
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He's an institutionalist by predisposition, and I think he will show respect to the Tea Party, but I would be shocked if he somehow becomes a full-throated embracer of every aspect of that agenda - which, as you know, is in some ways riven with internal contradictions, and it's hundreds of different kind of groups that could be said to make up the Tea Party.
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Its not idiocy, nor is this bill supposed to represent change (i won't get into the whole "change" issue as an institutionalist).
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I think the institutionalist emphasis in economics has shortchanged the value of mathematical models for economists.
Culture or Institutions?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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He's an institutionalist by predisposition, and I think he will show respect to the Tea Party, but I would be shocked if he somehow becomes a full-throated embracer of every aspect of that agenda - which, as you know, is in some ways riven with internal contradictions, and it's hundreds of different kind of groups that could be said to make up the Tea Party.
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Or maybe you guys are not interested in these as most of them have involved left-wing economists like Richard Ely, the institutionalist founder of the American Economic Association, and the Marxist economist, Paul Sweezy?
Two Cowenian Tenure Claims, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Obama ran on change, but he also made clear that he is a centrist and an institutionalist.
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This is the purely institutionalist, politicized view of the Court's work that I myself just evinced.
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Obama ran on change, but he also made clear that he is a centrist and an institutionalist.
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