Recent Developments in Evolutionary Economics

Edited by Ulrich Witt, Director Emeritus of the Evolutionary Economics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany and Adjunct Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Australia

• ContentsAcknowledgementsIntroductionUlrich WittPART INEO-SCHUMPETERIAN THEMESASelection Models of Market Competition1. J. Stanley Metcalfe (2002), ‘On the Optimality of the Competitive Process: Kimura’s Theorem and Market Dynamics’2. Esben Sloth Andersen (2004), ‘Population Thinking, Price’s Equation and the Analysis of Economic Evolution’BKnowledge and the Evolution of Technology3. Joel Mokyr (1998), ‘Induced Technical Innovation and Medical History: An Evolutionary Approach’4. Phuong Nguyen, Pier-Paolo Saviotti, Michel Trommetter and Bernard Bourgeois (2005), ‘Variety and the Evolution of Refinery Processing’CIndustry Evolution5. Franco Malerba, Richard Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo and Sidney Winter (2001), ‘Competition and Industrial Policies in a “History Friendly” Model of the Evolution of the Computer Industry’6. Steven Klepper (2002), ‘Firm Survival and the Evolution of Oligopoly’DEconomic Growth and Structural Change7. J. Stanley Metcalfe, John Foster and Ronnie Ramlogan (2006), ‘Adaptive Economic Growth’8. Jan Fagerberg and Bart Verspagen (2002), ‘Technology-Gaps, Innovation-Diffusion and Transformation: An Evolutionary Interpretation’PART IINATURALISTIC INTERPRETATIONS AND NEW DOMAINS OF APPLICATIONSA Naturalistic Approaches to Evolving Consumption, Production and Institutions9. Ulrich Witt (2001), ‘Learning to Consume - A Theory of Wants and the Growth of Demand’10. Robert U. Ayres and Benjamin Warr (2005), ‘Accounting for Growth: The Role of Physical Work’11. Ken Binmore (2001), ‘Natural Justice and Political Stability’BEvolutionary Game Theory12. Daniel Friedman (1998), ‘On Economic Applications of Evolutionary Game Theory’13. Werner Güth and Hartmut Kliemt (1998), ‘The Indirect Evolutionary Approach: Bridging the Gap between Rationality and Adaptation’CNew Domains of Application: Environment, Geography and Finance 14. Peter Mulder and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh (2001), ‘Evolutionary Economic Theories of Sustainable Development’15. Ron A. Boschma and Jan G. Lambooy (1999), ‘Evolutionary Economics and Economic Geography’16. Thorsten Hens, Klaus Reiner Schenk-Hoppé and Martin Stalder (2002), ‘An Application of Evolutionary Finance to Firms Listed in the Swiss Market Index’ PART IIICONCEPTUAL AND MODELING PROBLEMSAModeling Problems17. John Foster and Phillip Wild (1999), ‘Econometric Modelling in the Presence of Evolutionary Change’18. Thomas Brenner (1998), ‘Can Evolutionary Algorithms Describe Learning Processes?’BRecent Topics in the Conceptual Debate19. Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen (2006), ‘Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism, and Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough’20. Jack J. Vromen (2006), ‘Routines, Genes and Program-Based Behavior’21. Christian Cordes (2007), ’Turning Economics into an Evolutionary Science: Veblen, the Selection Metaphor, and Analogical Thinking’22. Kurt Dopfer, John Foster, and Jason Potts (2004), ‘Micro-Meso-Macro’Name Index