On the difficulty of evolutionary analysis
探讨了演化分析在社会科学中难以推进的三个原因：对时间的尊重需要细致处理过去、主流范式难以解释新奇事物、政策导向导致分类倾向，并以经济人类学和制度经济学为例说明这些困难如何使凡勃伦的愿景未能实现。
Thorstein Veblen's 100-year-old question--'Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science?'--remains relevant. Evolutionary analysis, even for those social scientists who trace their intellectual heritage to evolutionary thought, has been difficult for three reasons: effective incorporation of time requires a respectful and detailed treatment of the past; dominant social science paradigms have made it difficult to account for novelty; and concern with policy and current issues of social debate creates a tendency towards taxonomy. The twentieth-century history of economic anthropology and institutional economics illustrates that a failure to overcome these difficulties leaves Veblen's vision unfulfilled. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.