What Orientation for Interpreting Veblen? A Rejoinder to Baldwin Ranson

摘要

Thorstein Veblen's approach to economics is currently gaining new attention in the economic community in the context of a conceptual and methodological debate about how Darwinian concepts should be harnessed to further develop economic theory. This controversy is the frame which I would like to choose to clarify the potential of Veblen's ideas for modern economics and to discuss some of Professor Ranson's comments to my JEI article (Cordes 2005b).