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Now available: HSR Vol. 36 (2011) No. 4
Special Issue: Conventions and Institutions from a Historical Perspective
The French approach of “économie des conventions” (economics of convention, EC) today is one of the most important strands of the new pragmatic turn in social sciences. Conventions are pragmatic assumptions that actors make in interacting with others. In a society, conven-tions constitute a repertory of action registers, to which the building of institutions borrows for grounding and stabilizing collective action and cognition. The special issue of HSR as-sembles articles of international scholars who apply this approach to historical analysis and demonstrate the conceptual as well as the methodological potential of EC in the field of eco-nomic history.
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