The evolutionary foundations of economics /
edited by Kurt Dopfer.
- xiii, 577 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Evolutionary economics : a theoretical framework / Ontological foundations -- The rediscovery of value and the opening of economics / Synergetics : from physics to economics / Darwinism, altruism and economics / Decomposition and growth : biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s / Path dependence in economic processes : implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts / Is there a theory of economic history? / A framework for evolutionary analysis -- Towards an evolutionary theory of production / Learning in evolutionary environments / The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and the theory of the firm / The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution : a unifying paradigm / Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics / Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems / Perspectives on technological evolution / Evolutionary economic dynamics : persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity / Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth / Kurt Dopfer -- Ilya Prigogine -- Hermann Haken -- Herbert A. Simon -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Paul A. David -- Joel Mokyr -- Sidney G. Winter -- Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Giorgio Fagiolo -- Ulrich Witt -- John Foster -- J. Stanley Metcalfe -- Peter M. Allen -- Richard R. Nelson -- Ping Chen -- Gerald Silverberg and Bart Verspagen. 1. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. II. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16.
"It is widely recognised that mainstream economics has failed to translate micro consistently into macro economics and to provide endogenous explanations for the continual changes in the economic system. This volume brings together fifteen original articles from scholars - each of whom has made a significant contribution to the field - in their common effort to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity to bridge micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges, offering an entirely new approach to the foundations of economics."--BOOK JACKET.