Definition of "institutionalist" [institutionalist]

• Of, pertaining to, or following institutionalism (adjective)
• An adherent of institutionalism (in various senses) (noun)

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• "More recent work in economics, which is also called institutionalist, attempts to explain features of institutions by emphasizing the costs of transactions, the inevitable incompleteness of contracts, and the problems"
• "These are the core phenomena that "free market" idea strippers have relegated to the "institutionalist" basement of the academic economics curriculum."
• "He's an institutionalist by predisposition, and I think he will show respect to the Tea Party, but I would be shocked if he somehow becomes a full-throated embracer of every aspect of that agenda - which, as you know, is in some ways riven with internal contradictions, and it's hundreds of different kind of groups that could be said to make up the Tea Party."