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The 26 pages that link to Institutional economics, each with the reason it gives.

• Political economyRelated: It focuses analytical attention on the institutions that political economy treats as contested and consequential.

• Economic historyRelated: Institutional explanations connect historical rules to investment, exchange, and growth.

• Neoclassical economicsCompared with: It places structures often simplified or omitted by neoclassical models at the center.

• Rent-seekingNarrower topic: Rent-seeking illustrates how institutions can channel effort toward privilege instead of production.

• Marxian economicsRelated: It also treats economic relations as historically formed, while using a distinct analytical framework.

• Great DivergenceRelated: Institutional explanations attribute part of Europe’s divergence to differences in political and economic rules.

• Public choiceRelated: It shares public choice’s focus on rules while often using broader approaches to institutions.

• EconomicsCompared with: It makes rules and historical context central rather than treating them as background.

• MarginalismCompared with: It challenges explanations that center individual marginal decisions while abstracting from institutions.

• Carl MengerRelated: Menger’s explanation of money as an unintended institution anticipates questions central to this field.

• Thorstein VeblenNarrower topic: Veblen helped establish its focus on evolving institutions rather than timeless market laws.

• Economic geographyCompared with: It stresses rules and governance where location models may focus chiefly on costs.

• Douglass NorthNarrower topic: North’s work helped shape the modern study of institutions in economics.

• Economic sociologyCompared with: It shares attention to institutions but develops from economics rather than sociology.

• Feminist EconomicsRelated: Its focus on rules and power provides shared ground for analyzing gendered institutions.

• Financial economicsCompared with: It foregrounds institutional arrangements that abstract financial models may simplify.

• Post-Keynesian economicsNarrower topic: Post-Keynesian analysis treats economic institutions as constitutive, not merely background conditions.

• Shock therapy (economics)Narrower topic: Transition results depended on institutional capacity, not policy speed alone.

• Wesley Clair MitchellNarrower topic: Mitchell approached economic activity as historically formed behavior, not merely abstract exchange.

• History of Economic ThoughtCompared with: It counters explanations that treat preferences and markets as independent of institutions.

• John Kenneth GalbraithNarrower topic: His analysis treats corporations and public institutions as forces that conventional market models understate.

• Albert O. HirschmanRelated: Exit and voice show how institutional performance depends on members’ available responses.

• Constitutional economicsNarrower topic: Constitutional economics is a rule-focused branch of this wider study of institutions.

• Gunnar MyrdalNarrower topic: Myrdal treated institutions and social structures as integral to economic development.

• Frank William TaussigCompared with: Taussig’s historically grounded analysis overlaps with institutional concerns but was not identical to the later school.

• Labour economicsNarrower topic: It broadened labor analysis beyond market prices to unions, contracts, and legal rules.