Science and Ceremony: The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres

Publisher Marketing: Clarence Edwin Ayres was the leading American institutionalist economist in the post-World War II era. His innovative theories concerning the causes and significance of technological change provided the philosophical framework for that school of economics called institutionalism.

Contributor Bio:  Breit, William William Breit is E. M. Stevens Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Trinity University, San Antonio. Contributor Bio:  Galbraith, John Kenneth John Kenneth Galbraith (1908-2006) was a critically acclaimed author and one of America's foremost economists. His most famous works include The Affluent Society, The Good Society, and The Great Crash. Galbraith was the receipient of the Order of Canada and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Lifetime Achievement, and he was twice awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.