Understanding Economic Change
Advances in Evolutionary Economics
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- Editors:
- Ulrich Witt, Max Planck Institute, Jena
- Andreas Chai, Griffith University, Queensland
- Date Published: August 2022
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316501757
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Although the economy has always been changing, ever more innovations now seem to accelerate the transformation process. Are there any laws governing the incessant global change? Does it accord with our intentions and desires and make us happier? Do our institutions and our democracies cope with the challenges? How does economic theory explain what is going on? In this volume, experts in the field discuss the advances that evolutionary economics has made in exploring questions like these. The broad range of topics include a review of the development of the field: its conceptual and methodological characteristics are outlined; problems posed by macroeconomic evolution and the institutional challenges are highlighted; and, last but not least, the implications of the evolution of the economy for wellbeing and sustainability are addressed. Taken together, the contributions demonstrate the potential of an evolutionary paradigm for making sense of economic change and for assessing its consequences.
Read more- Offers interpretative tools for understanding economic change
- Authored by a range of international experts in the field
- Outlines recent advances in the field and extensions to new areas for the first time
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'This welcome collection of essays offers a rich perspective on the history and philosophy of evolutionary economics. It delves deep into core themes such as generalized Darwinism, institutions and bounded rationality, long-run economic development and evolutionary welfare theory, while also offering original applications to land use conflicts and unsustainable consumption.' Jeroen van den Bergh, ICREA Research Professor, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
See more reviews'As Ulrich Witt and Andreas Chai put it in their introduction, it is time for some stocktaking concerning progress in evolutionary economics. This excellent collection of essays performs that task admirably: a number of leading authors review developments in the field with erudition and careful criticism. This is a milestone volume.' Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire
'Evolutionary economics is in transition following a very productive and enlightening era when Nelson and Winter's 'replicator dynamics' perspective was its reference point. The past decade has witnessed the rise of competing perspectives such as: rule based complex systems; game theoretical micro-foundations; general Darwinian theory; socio-biological models, where biology is not just used as an analogy. Although there is general agreement that economic evolution should be modelled, explicitly, as a historical process, methodological differences have become more marked. In this volume a very prominent set of contributors explain their different positions. The result is a very interesting and stimulating set of essays that are well-written and accessible to both evolutionary and mainstream economists and their students. Anyone who wishes to know what the key issues and debates are in evolutionary economics today need look no further than this excellent volume.' John Foster, University of Queensland
'More than one century after Thorsten Veblen coined the label evolutionary economics there is still no consensus on what constitutes the core of an evolutionary approach in economics. This volume will be welcome by readers interested in learning about the current state of the field and its prospective development. The essays collected represent the principal versions of evolutionary thinking in contemporary economics, covering methodological, theoretical and normative issues. The editors' Introduction provides helpful guidance in tracing the history of the field, placing the collected essays into a broader context and pointing to prospects for theoretical convergence and integration.' Viktor J. Vanberg, University of Freiburg, Germany
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- Date Published: August 2022
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781316501757
- length: 410 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.57kg
- contains: 11 b/w illus. 9 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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