Evolutionary and Neo-Schumpeterian Approaches to Economics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   1. The Neo-Schumpeterian and Evolutionary Approach to Economics—An Introduction

      • Lars Magnusson

      Pages 1-8

3. Evolutionary Theory

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. What Is Evolutionary Economics?

      • Richard N. Langlois, Michael J. Everett

      Pages 11-47

   3. The Unit That Evolves: Linking Self-Reproduction and Self-Interest

      • Michael Hutter

      Pages 49-63

   4. On the Nature of Economic Evolution: John R. Commons and the Metaphor of Artificial Selection

      • Yngve Ramstad

      Pages 65-121

4. Neo-Schumpeterian Dynamics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 123-123

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   2. The Phenomenon of Economic Change: Neoclassical vs. Schumpeterian Approaches

      • Kurt Dopfer

      Pages 125-171

   3. The Theory of the Firm and the Theory Of economic Growth

      • Gunnar Eliasson

      Pages 173-201

   4. Evolutionary Regimes and Industrial Dynamics

      • Giovanni Dosi, Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo

      Pages 203-229

   5. The Role of Firm differences in An evolutionary Theory Of technical Advance

      • Richard R. Nelson

      Pages 231-242

5. Critique and New Challenges

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243

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   2. The Integration of Theory and History

      • William Lazonick

      Pages 245-263

   3. Neo-Schumpeterians and Economic Theory

      • Arnold Heertje

      Pages 265-276

   4. Rethinking Economics

      • Peter Söderbaum

      Pages 277-299

   5. Innovations, Markets and Institutions

      • Lars Magnusson, Göran Marklund

      Pages 301-319

6. Back Matter

   Pages 321-326

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not gentle to the capitalists" (Schumpeter, 1991). Thus, by instead portraying the conflict between entreprenuerial activity and the sociology of the modern state, he came quite close to the analysis carried out by Thorstein Veblen some decades earlier, who emphasized the conflict between p- gressive technology and the institutions of a contemporary "predatory dynastic State of early modern times, superficially altered by a suffusion of democratic and parliamentary institutions" (Veblen, 1964, p. 398). Modern neo-Schumpeterian approaches have continued to build on this groundwork provided by their master. During recent years there has been a great upsurge of discussion on technology, innovations, technological regimes, etc. from the dynamic perspective provided by Schumpeter (Dosi, 1984, Rosegger, 1985; Dosi et al., 1988). Thus the search process for (t- poral) extra profits has been stressed and has been used for modelling attempts. The wider institutional framework for technological change and innovation activity has also been strongly developed more recently. Hence emphasis has grown in the study of technological and industrial regimes, path dependency, and the network approach, developed recently, that social relationships structure the opportunities and constraints that face firms and agents that, for example, carry out innovations (Snehota, 1990).

• Innovation
• Schumpeter
• Theory of Economic Growth
• economic growth
• economic theory
• economics
• evolutionary economics
• evolutionary theory
• institutions
• integration
• production
• sustainability
• theory of the firm

• Uppsala University, Uppsala

  Lars Magnusson

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