In the 1990s, institutional and evolutionary economics emerged as one of the most creative and successful approaches in the modern social sciences. This reader gathers together contributions from leading international authors in the field of institutional and evolutionary economics including Eileen Appelbaum, Benjamin Coriat, Giovanni Dosi, Sheila C. Dow, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Uskli Maki, Bart Nooteboom and Marc R. Tool. The emphasis is on key concepts such as learning, trust power, pricing and markets,with some essays devoted to methodology and others to the comparison of different forms of capitalism.