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Evolutionary microeconomics

Jacques Lesourne, André Orléan, Bernard Walliser ; in cooperation with Paul Bourgine ... [et al.]

Springer, c2006

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Leçons de microéconomie évolutionniste

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"This book was published under the title 'Leçons de microéconomie évolutionniste'"--T.p. verso

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium is stated without a concrete process to achieve it, market is the unique institution considered. Evolutionary microeconomics is aimed at bypassing these limitations by considering a dynamic approach, however not biologically oriented. Agents have local information and bounded rationality, they are involved in explicit processes of interactions through time, various institutions sustain the market or substitute to it. It explains then some phenomena hardly explained by classical microeconomics: dispersion of prices, variety of industrial structures, financial bubbles.

Table of Contents

La formation des grandeurs economiques:desequilibre et instabilite.- The basic concepts.- Individual decision.- The elementary market.- Game situations.- The markets.- Market with irreversibilities.- Mimetic interactions.- Competition between firms.- The institutions.- Organization of the firm.- Emergence of institutions.- State and economic system regulation.

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  • NCID
    BA77562313
  • ISBN
    • 9783540285366
  • LCCN
    2006922868
  • Country Code
    gw
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    fre
  • Place of Publication
    Berlin
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 296 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Classification
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