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Evolution, Time, Production and the Environment

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  • © 1993

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Authors:
  1. Malte Faber

    1. Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1, Germany

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  2. John L. R. Proops

    1. Department of Economics and Management Science, University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Aims

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 3-13

  3. Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. The Concept of Evolution

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 17-42

    3. An Evolutionary Approach to Production and Innovation

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 43-58

  4. Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59
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    2. Economic Analysis and Concepts of Time Irreversibility

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 61-80

    3. Time in the Natural Sciences: Some Lessons for Economics

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 81-92

    4. Time, Conceptual Structures and Economic Schools of Thought

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 93-103

  5. Ignorance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. An Anatomy of Surprise and Ignorance

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 107-133

  6. Production and Innovation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135
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    2. Economy-Environment Interactions in the Long-Run

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 137-148

    3. Production, Accumulation and Time: A Neo-Austrian Approach

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 149-185

    4. The Neo-Austrian Approach: Extensions to the Model

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 186-215

    5. A Neo-Austrian Simulation Model of Economy-Environment Interactions

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 216-253

  7. Final Thoughts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. Policy Implications and the Need for Interdisciplinary Research

      • Malte Faber, John L. R. Proops
      Pages 257-269

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 270-288
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About this book

This second edition is brought about by two factors. First, the initial printing sold out much more rapidly than we expected. Second, several colleagues have been kind enough to suggest that this book not only has a contribution to make to ecological economics, but also has relevance to economics general. Thus our OUf distinction distinction between between genotypic genotypic and phenotypic evolution may be used to characterise not only economic sectors, but also whole economies, and in particular economic schools of thought. For instance, the Austrian subjectivist school deals explicitly with ignorance and the emergence of novelty, and may therefore be used to analyse genotypic development. In contrast, neoclassical economics deals principally with phenotypic development. When Dr. Müller Muller of Springer-Verlag suggested the production of a second edition, we were therefore pleased that this book might remain available. Several readers and in particular reviewers of the first edition remarked, in one way or the other, that they had questions concerning several of our OUf concepts, concepts, such as genotype, phenotype, ignorance, surprise, sUlprise, novelty, novelty, knowledge, knowledge, predictable predictable and unpredictable processes etc. Of course, all these concepts are of importance for evolution in general and for invention and innovation of new techniques in particular. We therefore considered some modifications and extensions of the original text, but on the advice of colleagues, have restricted oUfselves ourselves to correcting mistakes that crept into the first edition and to two extensions ofthe of the text, text, one major, one smaller.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und Staatswissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1, Germany

    Malte Faber

  • Department of Economics and Management Science, University of Keele, Staffordshire, UK

    John L. R. Proops

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