Understanding Economic Change Advances in Evolutionary Economics /
Edited by Ulrich Witt and Andreas Chai
- UK: Cambridge University Press, 2019
- 398p.; 23cm.
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.
9781316501757
Economics, Economic Thought, Philosophy and Methodology, Economic Development and Growth