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Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope

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Editors:
  1. Kurt Dopfer

    1. University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 74)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Evolutionary Economics:Framework for Analysis

      • Kurt Dopfer
      Pages 1-44

  3. Foundational Issues

    1. Evolutionary Economics: An interpretative survey

      • Ulrich Witt
      Pages 45-88

    2. On the Ontological Foundations of Evolutionary Economics

      • Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
      Pages 89-139

  4. Evolutionary Macroeconomics

    1. Dynamics: Long-run View and Population Thinking

      1. Evolutionary Approaches to Population Thinking and the Problem of Growth and Development
        • J. Stanley Metcalfe
        Pages 141-164
      2. Evolutionary Perspectives on Economic growth
        • Richard R. Nelson
        Pages 165-194

    2. Statistics: Division of Knowledge and Valuation Principles

      1. The Evolutionary Principles of American Neoinstitutional Economics
        • Paul D. Bush, Marc R. Tool
        Pages 195-229
      2. Knowledge and Meliorism in the Evolutionary Theory of F. A. Hayek
        • Richard N. Langlois, Müfit M. Sabooglu
        Pages 231-251

  5. Evolutionary microeconomics

    1. Dynamics: Selection, Adaptation and Learning Processes

      1. Selection Processes in Economics
        • Brian Loasby
        Pages 253-276
      2. Adapting, Learning and Economizing
        • Richard H. Day
        Pages 277-297

    2. Statistics: Agency, Firm and Economic Structure

      1. Early Signs of a Revolution in Microeconomics
        • Jacques Lesourne
        Pages 299-318
      2. Evolutionary Theories of the Firm: Reconstruction and Relations to Contractual Theories
        • Nicolai Foss
        Pages 319-355

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 357-374
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About this book

Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope offers a fresh look at the paradigmatic foundations and basic theoretical propositions of economics. Twelve authors - each of them with his own distinct contribution to economics - make a step forward by reinterpreting major areas of micro and macroeconomics in line with modern evolutionary thinking. This volume offers a unified approach to economics that allows recent developments in various strands of Evolutionary Economics to be integrated and major positions of Neoclassical Economics to be reconsidered.
The chapters on `Evolutionary Macro Economics' explore macro areas such as the division of labor and knowledge, technology and institutions, population thinking, meso economics, techno-economic trajectories and industrial sectors. By telescoping structure into time, they highlight the processes of structural change and co-evolution between technologies and institutions, and provide a causal-explanatory core for a modern - evolutionary - theory of economic growth and economic development.
The chapters on `Evolutionary Micro Economics' offer insights into the knowledge based theories of the firm and take up the issues of cognitive and behavioral routines. The contributions explore the processes of complex human choice, creativity, and adaptation in selective and path-dependent environments. The discussions make an essential contribution to the cognitive and behavioral foundations of a modern institutional economics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Kurt Dopfer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Evolutionary Economics: Program and Scope

  • Editors: Kurt Dopfer

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0648-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2001

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7394-0Published: 30 June 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3869-0Published: 24 September 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-0648-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 374

  • Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology

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