The evolution of economic diversity
Author(s)
Bibliographic Information
The evolution of economic diversity
(Routledge Siena studies in political economy)
Routledge, 2013
- : pbk
Available at 1 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The traditional role of evolutionary theory in the social sciences has been to explain the existence of an object in terms of the survival of the fittest. In economics this approach has acted as a justification for hypotheses such as profit maximisation, or the existence of institutions in terms of their overall efficiency. This volume challenges that view and argues that one of the first tasks of economic theory should be to explain the enormous diversity of institutional arrangements that has characterised human societies.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: the co-evolution of economics and biology and the evolution of diversity Antonio Nicita and Ugo Pagano A. Natural Selection and Social Sciences 2. The origin of organizational species Ugo Pagano 3. Biological and cultural evolution: aspects of dynamics, statistics and optimization Marcus Fieldman 4. The evolution of evaluators Daniel C Dennet B. The Multiplicity of Learning Paths 5. Path dependent learning, and the evolution of beliefs and behaviours Paul A David 6. Learning dynamics, Lock-in, and equilibrium selection in experimental co-ordination games Vincent Crawford 7. On the dynamics of cognition and actions. An assessment of some models of learning and evolution Giovanni Dosi, G Fagiolo and L. Marengo C. Technical Change in Learning Paths 8. Evolutionary theories of economic change Richard R Nelson 9. Diversity and irreversibility in scientific and technological systems: the evolution of an industry network F. Pammollo, A Bonaccorsi, L Orsenigo, M Riccabomi and G Turchetti 10. The firm as an evolutionary enforcement device Antonio Nicita D. The Evolution of Norms 11. Lecture notes on equilibrium selection and the evolution of norms Robert Boyd 12. Endogenous interactions G. Mailath, L. Samuleson and A. Shaked 13. Social networks and efficient evolutionary outcomes in recurrent common interest games Stefano Vannucci 14. Community governance: An evolutionary analysis Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 15. Cooperation and exclusion in networks Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 16. Evolution of money Katsuhito Iwai
by "Nielsen BookData"