1st Edition
An Ecosystem Approach to Economic Stabilization Escaping the Neoliberal Wilderness
By Rodrick Wallace
Copyright 2015
174 Pages
by
Routledge
174 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
174 Pages
24 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The creation of economic institutions that can function well under substantial uncertainties -- Black Swans -- is analogous to the dilemmas confronting our hunter-gatherer forefathers in the face of large-scale ecological unpredictability. The ultimate solution was not the development of a super hunter-gatherer technology that could ride out repeated catastrophe, but rather the invention, in... Read more
1. The Crisis in Economic Theory 2. Evolutionary Economics 3. Black Swans and Red Queens 4. Lies and Deceit: `Niche Construction' 5. Farming an Economy 6. Cambrian Explosions and Mass Extinctions 7. Counterexample: The Pentagon Ratchet 8. Counterexample: Organized Hyperviolence 9. Counterexample: Farming Human Pathogens 10. Escaping the Howling Wilderness 11. Mathematical Appendix
Biography
Rodrick Wallace is Research Scientist at Division of Epidemiology, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, USA
