"There [is]... a list of five tests which any body of doctrine which aspires to the name of economic theory must be able to meet:"
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Academics from the United StatesEducators from the United StatesEconomists from the United StatesYale University facultyPeople from Tennessee
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Walton Hale Hamilton
1928 β 1948
Walton H. Hamilton (October 30, 1881 β October 27, 1958]]) was an American law professor who taught at the Yale Law School (1928β1948), although he was an economist, not a lawyer. In 1919 Hamilton coined the term "Institutional economics".
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