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Title The evolutionary foundations of economics / edited by Kurt Dopfer
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 577 pages)
Contents PROLEGOMENON -- Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework / Kurt Dopfer -- I. ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- A. Evolutionary physics: a non-Cartesian bridge to economics: -- The rediscovery of value and the opening of economcis / Ilya Prigogine -- Synergetics: from physics to economics / Hermann Haken -- B. Evolutionary biology: the Mecca of economics: -- Darwinism, altruism and economics / Herbert A. Simon -- Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- C. Evolutionary history: reconciling economic reality with theory: -- Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts / Paul A. David -- Is there a theory of economic history? / Joel Mokyr -- II. A FRAMEWORK FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS -- A. Evolutionary microeconomics: -- Towards an evolutionary theory of production / Sidney G. Winter -- Learning in evolutionary environments / Giovanni Dosi [and others] -- The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and theory of the firm / Ulrich Witt -- B. Evolutionary mesoeconomics: -- The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution: a unifying paradigm / John Foster -- Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics / J. Stanley Metcalfe -- Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems / Peter M. ALlen -- C. Evolutionary macroeconomics: -- Perspectives on technological evolution / Richard R. Nelson -- Evolutionary economic dynamics: persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity / Ping Chen -- Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth / Gerald Silverberg, Bart Verspagen
Summary This volume brings together fifteen original articles from eminent economic scholars in their common efforts to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity, bridging micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Subject Evolutionary economics.
Economics.
Economics
economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
Evolutionary economics.
Economics
Evolutionary economics
Evolutorische Wirtschaft
Sociale evolutie.
Institutionele economie.
Économie évolutionniste.
Form Electronic book
Author Dopfer, Kurt
LC no. 2005296491
ISBN 0511113218
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