The evolutionary foundations of economics
By: edited by Kurt Dopfer.
Contributors: Dopfer, Kurt.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 577
Subjects: Evolutionary economics.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: PROLEGOMENON; title: Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework -- Kurt Dopfer -- I. ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS -- A. Evolutionary physics: a non-Cartesian bridge to economics:; title: The rediscovery of value and the opening of economcis -- Ilya Prigogine; title: Synergetics: from physics to economics -- Hermann Haken -- B. Evolutionary biology: the Mecca of economics:; title: Darwinism, altruism and economics -- Herbert A. Simon; title: Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s -- Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- C. Evolutionary history: reconciling economic reality with theory:; title: Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts -- Paul A. David; title: Is there a theory of economic history? -- Joel Mokyr -- II. A FRAMEWORK FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS -- A. Evolutionary microeconomics:; title: Towards an evolutionary theory of production -- Sidney G. Winter; title: Learning in evolutionary environments -- Giovanni Dosi ... [et al.]; title: The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and theory of the firm -- Ulrich Witt -- B. Evolutionary mesoeconomics:; title: The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution: a unifying paradigm -- John Foster; title: Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics -- J. Stanley Metcalfe; title: Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems -- Peter M. ALlen -- C. Evolutionary macroeconomics:; title: Perspectives on technological evolution -- Richard R. Nelson; title: Evolutionary economic dynamics: persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity -- Ping Chen; title: Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth -- Gerald Silverberg, -- Bart Verspagen.