Evolutionary Foundations of Economics

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Prolegomenon 1. Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework Kurt Dopfer Part I. Ontological Foundations: 2. The rediscovery of value and the opening of economics Ilya Prigogine 3. Synergetics: from physics to economics Hermann Haken 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 6. Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical systems contexts Paul A. David 7. Is there a theory of economic history? Joel Mokyr Part II. Framework for Evolutionary Analysis: 8. Toward an evolutionary theory of production Sidney G. Winter 9. Learning in evolutionary environments Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Giorgio Fagiolo 10. Evolutionary theory of the firm Ulrich Witt 11. The self-organizational perspective on economic processes: a unifying paradigm John Foster 12. Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics J. Stanley Metcalfe 13. Economics and the science of evolutionary complex systems Peter Allen 14. Perspectives on technological evolution Richard R. Nelson 15. Complex dynamics in economic organisms Ping Chen 16. Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth Gerald Silverberg and Bart Verspagen Bibliography Index.

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