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Part 1 Veblen's challenge: mind-sets, and why Veblen was ineffectual,Mark Perlman; how can economics be an institutional-evolutionary science?,Phillip O'Hara; Thorstein Veblen and the political economy of the ordinary -hope and despair, Alan W. Dyer; Veblen and theories of the "firm", AnneMayhew; institutional economics and the specificity of social evolution-about the contribution of J.R. Commons, Laure Bazzoli; the significance ofClarence Ayres and the Texas School, James R. Stanfield and Jacqueline B.Stanfield; bounded rationality, institutionalism and the diversity ofeconomic institutions, Ugo Pagano; is economics an evolutionary science?,Frank Hahn. Part 2 The challenge reconsidered: the travelling salesmanreturns from the war - Tjalink Koopmans and the wartime studies for peacetimeapplications, Albert Jolink; is capitalism doomed? a Nobel discussion,Francisco Louca; an institutionalist foundation for development studies -rethinking Polyani and Veblen on the "Sonderweg", Eyup Ozveren; the future'sunknowability - Keynes's probability, probable knowledge and the decision toinnovate, Marco Crocc. Part 3 Perspectives: institutions, increasing returnsand endogenous growth, J.S. Metcalfe.