TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dopfer,Kurt
TI  - The evolutionary foundations of economics
SN  - 0521621992
U1  - 330.1 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Evolutionary economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1; Evolutionary economics : a theoretical framework; Kurt Dopfer --; I; Ontological foundations --; 2; The rediscovery of value and the opening of economics; Ilya Prigogine --; 3; Synergetics : from physics to economics; Hermann Haken --; 4; Darwinism, altruism and economics; Herbert A. Simon --; 5; Decomposition and growth : biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s; Geoffrey M. Hodgson --; 6; Path dependence in economic processes : implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts; Paul A. David --; 7; Is there a theory of economic history?; Joel Mokyr --; II; A framework for evolutionary analysis --; 8; Towards an evolutionary theory of production; Sidney G. Winter --; 9; Learning in evolutionary environments; Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Giorgio Fagiolo --; 10; The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and the theory of the firm; Ulrich Witt --; 11; The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution : a unifying paradigm; John Foster --; 12; Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics; J. Stanley Metcalfe --; 13; Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems; Peter M. Allen --; 14; Perspectives on technological evolution; Richard R. Nelson --; 15; Evolutionary economic dynamics : persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity; Ping Chen --; 16; Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth; Gerald Silverberg and Bart Verspagen
N2  - "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
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