Recent Developments in Evolutionary Economics
Evolutionary economics is a vital, expanding field of research focusing on the incessant transformation of the economy and its driving forces. Highlighting a variety of pressing economic problems, explaining causes and arriving at innovative remedies, this book considers developments in innovations, knowledge transfer, and industrial dynamics.
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Evolutionary economics is a vital, expanding field of research focusing on the incessant transformation of the economy and its driving forces. Exploring the most recent research trends in the field, this volume presents a high quality set of papers indispensable to scholars and researchers interested in the evolutionary approach. Highlighting a variety of pressing economic problems, explaining causes and arriving at innovative remedies, the broad coverage considers developments in: innovations, knowledge transfer, industrial dynamics, structural change, international competitiveness, evolutionary game theory, new applications of evolutionary thought in finance, economic geography and ecological economics.
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Publisher & Imprint:
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
City:
Cheltenham
Pages:
528
More info:
height 244 mm
width 169 mm
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Age recommended:
College/higher education
Subject Indexing & Classification
Dewey: 330.1
Library of Congress Subject: Evolutionary economics
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Recent Developments in Evolutionary Economics
ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroduction Ulrich WittPART I NEO-SCHUMPETERIAN THEMESA Selection Models of Market Competition1. J. Stanley Metcalfe (2002), 'On the Optimality of the Competitive Process: Kimura's Theorem and Market Dynamics'2. Esben Sloth Andersen (2004), 'Population Thinking, Price's Equation and the Analysis of Economic Evolution'B Knowledge and the Evolution of Technology3. Joel Mokyr (1998), 'Induced Technical Innovation and Medical History: An Evolutionary Approach'4. Phuong Nguyen, Pier-Paolo Saviotti, Michel Trommetter and Bernard Bourgeois (2005), 'Variety and the Evolution of Refinery Processing'C Industry Evolution5. Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo and Sidney Winter (2001), 'Competition and Industrial Policies in a A"History FriendlyA" Model of the Evolution of the Computer Industry'6. Steven Klepper (2002), 'Firm Survival and the Evolution of Oligopoly'D Economic Growth and Structural Change7. J. Stanley Metcalfe, John Foster and Ronnie Ramlogan (2006), 'Adaptive Economic Growth'8. Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen (2002), 'Technology-Gaps, Innovation-Diffusion and Transformation: An Evolutionary Interpretation'PART II NATURALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS AND NEW DOMAINS OF APPLICATIONSA Naturalistic Approaches to Evolving Consumption, Production and Institutions9. Ulrich Witt (2001), 'Learning to Consume - A Theory of Wants and the Growth of Demand'10. Robert U. Ayres and Benjamin Warr (2005), 'Accounting for Growth: The Role of Physical Work'11. Ken Binmore (2001), 'Natural Justice and Political Stability'B Evolutionary Game Theory12. Daniel Friedman (1998), 'On Economic Applications of Evolutionary Game Theory'13. Werner Guth and Hartmut Kliemt (1998), 'The Indirect Evolutionary Approach: Bridging the Gap between Rationality and Adaptation'C New Domains of Application: Environment, Geography and Finance 14. Peter Mulder and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh (2001), 'Evolutionary Economic Theories of Sustainable Development'15. Ron A. Boschma and Jan G. Lambooy (1999), 'Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography'16. Thorsten Hens, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppe and Martin Stalder (2002), 'An Application of Evolutionary Finance to Firms Listed in the Swiss Market Index' PART III CONCEPTUAL AND MODELING PROBLEMSA Modeling Problems17. John Foster and Phillip Wild (1999), 'Econometric Modelling in the Presence of Evolutionary Change'18. Thomas Brenner (1998), 'Can Evolutionary Algorithms Describe Learning Processes?' B Recent Topics in the Conceptual Debate19. Geoffrey M. Hodgson and ThorbjA rn Knudsen (2006), 'Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism, and Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough'20. Jack J. Vromen (2006), 'Routines, Genes and Program-Based Behavior'21. Christian Cordes (2007), 'Turning Economics into an Evolutionary Science: Veblen, the Selection Metaphor, and Analogical Thinking'22. Kurt Dopfer, John Foster, and Jason Potts (2004), 'Micro-Meso-Macro'Name Index
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