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Pubblicazioni della Raffaele Mattioli Foundation. Edited by Carlo Secchi , assisted by Cynthia Panas Avesani. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1993, cm.17x25, pp.XI,204, legatura editoriale in tutta tela con dorature, sopraccoperta. Collana Raffaele Mattioli Lectures. Design , Monotype composition anf printing by Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. Shigeto Tsuru is one of Japan's most respected senior economists. In these lectures, he provides a reappraisal of institutionalism as a school of thought and discusses its relevance for the issues which the economic profession today must tackle. Tsuru reconsiders Marxian political economy as an 'institutionalist school', which provides a context for the following discussion of J. M. Keynes, Joseph Schumpeter and Thorstein Veblen. He goes on to present the four key elements of modern institutionalism - i.e., the open-system character of the economy; the problem of planning; the evolutionary process of modern economics; and the normative character of economics - by way of an examination of three present-day institutionalists, Gunnar Myrdal, John K. Galbraith, and K. William Kapp. Tsuru concludes with an evaluation of modern institutionalism and the future of institutional economics.