Understanding Economic Change

Advances in Evolutionary Economics
Herausgeber: Witt, Ulrich; Chai, Andreas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Shows how thinking in evolutionary terms enhances our understanding of the economic and social change taking place at all levels.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. November 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 684g
• ISBN-13: 9781107136205
• ISBN-10: 1107136202
• Artikelnr.: 52961740

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction: 1. Evolutionary economics: taking stock of its
progress and emerging challenges Ulrich Witt and Andreas Chai; Part II.
Conceptual and Methodological Problems: 2. Missed connections and
opportunities foregone: a counterfactual history of twentieth century
economics Brian J. Loasby; 3. Science, technology, and knowledge: what
historians can learn from an evolutionary approach Joel Mokyr; 4.
Generalized Darwinism in evolutionary economics: the devil is in the
details Jack Vromen; Part III. Perspectives on Evolutionary Macroeconomics:
5. Macroeconomic evolution: long run development and short run policies
Richard H. Day; 6. Evolutionary micro-founded technical change and the
Kaldor-Verdoorn law: estimates from an artificial world André Lorentz; Part
IV. Advances in Explaining and Assessing Institutional Evolution: 7.
Democracy, rationality and religion Dennis C. Mueller; 8. On the evolution
of organizational governance: divided governance and survival in the long
run Roger D. Congleton; 9. Strategic interaction and externalities:
FD-games and pollution Reinoud Joosten; 10. Fairness in urban land use: an
evolutionary contribution to law and economics Christian Schubert; Part V.
Evolutionary Perspectives on Welfare and Sustainability: 11. As innovations
drive economic change, do they also improve our welfare? Martin Binder and
Ulrich Witt; 12. Sustainable consumption patterns and the malleability of
consumer preferences: an evolutionary perspective Andreas Chai.