Contents:
List of Contributors:
List of Figures;
List of Tables;
Prolegomenon:
1. Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework - Kurt Dopfer;
I. Ontological Foundations:
A. Evolutionary physics: a non-Cartesian bridge to economics:
2. The rediscovery of value and the opening of economcis - Ilya Prigogine;
3. Synergetics: from physics to economics - Hermann Haken;
B. Evolutionary biology: the Mecca of economics:
4. Darwinism, altruism and economics - Herbert A. Simon;
5. Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s - Geoffrey M. Hodgson;
C. Evolutionary history: reconciling economic reality with theory:
6. Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts - Paul A. David;
7. Is there a theory of economic history? - Joel Mokyr;
II. A Framework For Evolutionary Analysis:
A. Evolutionary microeconomics:
8. Towards an evolutionary theory of production - Sidney G. Winter;
9. Learning in evolutionary environments - Giovanni Dosi [and others]
10. The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and theory of the firm - Ulrich Witt;
B. Evolutionary mesoeconomics:
11. The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution: a unifying paradigm - John Foster;
12. Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics - J. Stanley Metcalfe;
13. Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems - Peter M. Allen;
C. Evolutionary macroeconomics:
14. Perspectives on technological evolution - Richard R. Nelson;
15. Evolutionary economic dynamics: persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity - Ping Chen;
16. Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth - Gerald Silverberg, Bart Verspagen;
Index of topics;
Index of names.