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Alternative Titles: AIE, American institutional economists,


institutionalism

Institutional economics, also known as


institutionalism, school of economics
that flourished in the United States during
the 1920s and ’30s. It viewed the
evolution of economic institutions as part
of the broader process of cultural
development.

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