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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2003. Illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, but also where it will lead.
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Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the co-evolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about.
Offering an outline of a paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution.
Contents
Contents:
Preface
Part I: Introduction
1. Evolutionary Economics and the Extension of Evolution to the Economy
Part II: Evolutionary Concepts and Methodology
2. Emergence and Dissemination of Innovation: Some Principles of Evolutionary Economics
3. Evolutionary Concepts in Economics
4. Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization
5. Firms' Market Behavior Under Imperfect Information and Economic Natural Selection
6. "Lock-in" vs. "Critical Masses" - Industrial Change Under Network Externalities
Part III: The Darwinian Perspective and the Continuity Hypothesis
7. Bioeconomics as Economics from a Darwinian Perspective
8. Economics, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Psychology on Preferences
9. Economic Behavior and Biological Evolution: Some Remarks on the Sociobiology Debate
10. Self-Organization and Economics - What is New?
Part IV: Evolution in the Context of New Institutional Economics and Public Choice
11. The Evolution of Economic Institutions as a Propagation Process
12. The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist
13. Multiple Equilibria, Critical Masses, and Institutional Change. The Coup d'état Problem
14. Evolution and Stability of Cooperation Without Enforceable Contracts
15. Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics
16. Innovations, Externalities and the Problem of Economic Progress
Part V: The Evolutionary Approach and the Austrian School of Economics
17. Subjectivism in Economics - A Suggested Reorientation
18. Endogenous Change - Causes and Contingencies
19. Turning Austrian Economics into an Evolutionary Theory
20. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics
Index