Evolutionary economics
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Evolutionary economics
（The international library of critical writings in economics / series editor, Mark Blaug, 25）（An Elgar reference collection）
E. Elgar, c1993
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Description
Evolutionary economics has become a major heterodox approach over the last decades. Its roots can be traced back to Schumpeter and Veblen. More recently, an important role is also played by analogies to evolutionary biology, notably to natural selection models. As this research review explains, the approach of evolutionary economics offers an improved understanding of market processes, industry dynamics, structural change, and economic growth as being driven by human innovativeness.
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION
PART I: SCHUMPETERIAN THEMES
J. A. Schumpeter (1947), 'The Creative Response in Economic History'
J. A. Schumpeter (1928), 'The Instability of Capitalism'
C. Freeman (1990), 'Schumpeter's Business Cycles Revisted'
PART II: ECONOMIC NATURAL SELECTION AND FIRM AND INDUSTRY BEHAVIOR
A. A. Alchian (1950), 'Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory'
S. G. Winter (1971), 'Satisficing, Selection and the Innovating Remnant'
R. R. Nelson and S. G. Winter (1980), 'Firm and Industry Response to Changed Market Conditions: An Evolutionary Approach'
K. Iwai (1984), 'Schumpeterian Dynamics - An Evolutionary Model of Innovation and Imitation'
PART III: BROADER BIOLOGICAL ANALOGIES
R. C. O. Matthews (1984), 'Darwinism and Economic Change'
J. M. Gowdy (1985), 'Evolutionary Theory and Economic Theory: Some Methodological Issues'
J. Hirshleifer (1982), 'Evolutionary Models in Economics and Law: Cooperation versus Conflict Strategy'
PART IV: PATH-DEPENDENCY AND BIFURICATIONS: ASPECTS OF NON-LINEAR DYNAMICS
W. B. Arthur, Y. M. Ermoliev and Y. M. Kaniovski (1987), 'Path-dependent Processes and the Emergence of Macro-structure'
P. A. David (1985), 'Clio and the Economics of QWERTY'
T. Kuran (1989), 'Sparks and Prairie Fires: A Theory of Unanticipated Political Revolution'
G. Haag, W. Weidlich and G. Mensch (1987), 'The Schumpeter Clock'
PART V: KNOWLEDGE, INNOVATION, AND COMPETITION
B. Loasby (1983), 'Knowledge, Learning and Enterprise'
S. Metcalfe (1989), 'Evolution and Economic Change'
F. A. Hayek (1978), 'Competition as a Discovery Procedure'
U. Witt (1985), 'Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-organization'
PART VI: CULTURAL EVOLUTION AND SPONTANEOUS ORDER
R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson (1980), 'Sociobiology, Culture and Economic Theory'
F. A. Hayek (1967), 'Notes on the Evolution of Systems of Rules of Conduct'
V. Vanberg (1986), 'Spontaneous Market Order and Social Rules: A Critical Examination of F. A. Hayek's Theory of Cultural Evolution'
R. Sugden (1989), 'Spontaneous Order'
PART VII: ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE LONG RUN
K. E. Boulding (1981), 'The Basic Evolutionary Model'
C. Marcetti (1980), 'Society as a Learning System: Discovery, Invention and Innovation Cycles Revisited'
R. H. Day and J. -L. Walter (1989), 'Economic Growth in the Very Long Run: On the Multiple-phase Interaction of Population, technology and Social Infrastructure'
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