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Institutional economics was once the dominant school of economics in the United States, including such famous but diverse economists as Thorstein Veblen , Wesley Mitchell , and John R. Commons . While some institutionalists see Karl Marx as belonging to the institutionalist tradition because he described Capitalism as a historically bounded social system; other institutionalist economists disagree with Marx's definition of capitalism, instead seeing defining features such as markets, money and the private ownership of production as naturally arising over time, as a result of the purposive actions of individuals. "Traditional" institutionalism {Link without Title} rejects the ''reduction'' of institutions to simply tastes, , Daniel Bromley, and Anne Mayhew. With the development of theories of for effectively ignoring institutions, and at New Institutional Economics for attempting to reduce institutions to 'rational' and 'efficient' resolutions to the problem of Transactions Costs . Modern institutionalism is thus sharply divided between New Institutional Economics represented by people like Nobel Prizewinner Douglass North and Institutional Political Economy (an approach opposed to Neoclassical Economics and its political adjunct Neoliberalism ) chiefly associated with the Berkley sociologist Peter B Evans and the Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang . Some Sources
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