Joel Magnuson, PhD, is an independent economist and writer with over two decades of experience teaching economics.

His work is largely an exploration of the history of institutions and a study of various economic philosophies including pragmatism, Buddhism, and traditional liberalism. Magnuson is the author of several books and has published numerous articles in the United States, Europe, and Japan.

1. Introduction

2. Better Institutions of Life

3. The Mechanistic Theory of Life

4. The Johns Hopkins Nexus

5. Veblen’s America

6. John Dewey and the Functional Society

7. Through the Looking Glass Holistically

8. Mead’s Fusion of Me and I

9. The Co-Emergence of Self and Society

10. Conclusion and the Study of Social Change