The evolving economy : essays on the evolutionary approach to economics

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The evolving economy : essays on the evolutionary approach to economics

Ulrich Witt

E. Elgar, c2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about. Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution.

目次

Contents: Preface Part I: Introduction 1. Evolutionary Economics and the Extension of Evolution to the Economy Part II: Evolutionary Concepts and Methodology 2. Emergence and Dissemination of Innovation: Some Principles of Evolutionary Economics 3. Evolutionary Concepts in Economics 4. Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization 5. Firms' Market Behavior Under Imperfect Information and Economic Natural Selection 6. "Lock-in" vs. "Critical Masses" - Industrial Change Under Network Externalities Part III: The Darwinian Perspective and the Continuity Hypothesis 7. Bioeconomics as Economics from a Darwinian Perspective 8. Economics, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Psychology on Preferences 9. Economic Behavior and Biological Evolution: Some Remarks on the Sociobiology Debate 10. Self-Organization and Economics - What is New? Part IV: Evolution in the Context of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice 11. The Evolution of Economic Institutions as a Propagation Process 12. The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist 13. Multiple Equilibria, Critical Masses, and Institutional Change. The Coup d'etat Problem 14. Evolution and Stability of Cooperation Without Enforceable Contracts 15. Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics 16. Innovations, Externalities and the Problem of Economic Progress Part V: The Evolutionary Approach and the Austrian School of Economics 17. Subjectivism in Economics - A Suggested Reorientation 18. Endogenous Change - Causes and Contingencies 19. Turning Austrian Economics into an Evolutionary Theory 20. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics Index

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA61338412
  • ISBN
    • 1840647485
    • 1845428323
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cheltenham
  • ページ数/冊数
    x, 405 p.
  • 大きさ
    24 cm
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