Economics, Evolution and the State

Edited by Kurt Dopfer, Professor of Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland

• Contents: Introduction Kurt DopferPart I: Economic Evolution as Open Process 1. Heterogeneity and Evolutionary Change – Concepts and Measurement Uwe Cantner and Horst Hanusch2. Is the Notion of Progress Compatible with an Evolutionary View of the Economy? C. Christian von Weizsäcker3. Reconciling Evolutionary Economics with Liberalism Gerhard Wegner4. Historical Economics and Evolutionary Economic Policy – Coasean Perspectives Matthias KlaesPart II: Self-organisation and Networks 5. The Concept of Network Organisation – Biotechnology-based Industries as Exemplar Andreas Pyka and P. Paolo Saviotti6. Sociodynamics – An Integrated Approach to Modelling in the Social SciencesWolfgang Weidlich7. The Concept of Space in Trade – Some Evolutionary Basics Carsten Herrmann-Pillath8. Economic Policy – A Process of Communication Lambert T. Koch9. Why Endogeneity is Not Enough to Explain Technological Change – A Critique of Paul Romer Malcolm H. DunnPart III: The Political Economy of Complexity 10. Innovation and the Learning Policy Maker – An Evolutionary Approach Based on Historical Experience Joachim Schwerin and Claudia Werker11. The National German Innovation System – Its Development in Different Governmental and Territorial Structures Hariolf Grupp, Icíar Dominguez Lacasa and Monika Friedrich-Nishio12. Emergence and Diffusion of Disastrous Innovations – A Case Study Reiner Peter Hellbrück13. Applying Evolutionary Economics to Public Policy – The Example of Competitive Federalism in the EU Wolfgang Kerber14. Can Evolutionary Economics Make a Billion $ Difference for 60 Per Cent of the World’s Poor in Asia?Hans-Peter Brunner Index