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Much theoretical work, of course, focuses on existing economic institutions. The theorist wants to explain or forecast the economic or social outcomes that these institutions generate.

A preoccupation with theory has been a defensive response by academic biographers in this country, I submit, to the condescension of traditional humanists and social scientists pervading higher education for many years.

As anyone familiar with my scholarship knows, I am not a huge fan of inherent powers in most contexts.

I would say I have a complicated relationship with institutionalized religion.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist - I'm a conspiracy analyst.

I try to be the fixer of situations and I gravitate to people who are institutional misfits.

Totalitarianism is patriotism institutionalized.

An institution is beyond any individual. It breathes and lives on its own and always will.