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List of Tables and Figures; Introduction; 1. The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics, Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler; Part I. Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; 2. The Institutional and Neoclassical Schools in Labor Economics, Bruce E. Kaufman; 3. Labor and the Menace of Competition, Glen Atkinson; 4. John R. Commons and His Students: The View from the End of the Twentieth Century, J. Dennis Chasse; 5. Wages in the Public Interest: Insights from Thorstein Veblen and J.M. Clark, Dell P. Champlin and Janet T. Knoedler; 6. U.S. Labor Re-Examined, 1880-1930: Success, Ideology, and Reversal, Jon D. Wisman and Aaron Pacitti; Part II. Institutionalist Thought on Labor Since World War II; 7. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Institutionalist Theories of Wage Rates and Wage Differentials, Douglas Kinnear; 8. The Significance of Segmentation for Institutional Theory and Public Policy, Jerry Gray and Richard Chapman; 9. Dead Metaphors and Living Wages: On the Role of