1st Edition

Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics

476 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

476 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

476 Pages 24 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

While dating from post-Classical economists such as Thorstein Veblen and Joseph Schumpeter, the inception of the modern field of evolutionary economics is usually dated to the early 1980s. Broadly speaking, evolutionary economics sees the economy as undergoing continual, evolutionary change. Evolutionary change indicates that these changes were not planned, but rather were the result of... Read more

Evolutionary economics: A navigational guide Kurt Dopfer, Richard R. Nelson, Jason Potts, and Andreas Pyka

Part I: Foundational issues and theoretical domains

1. Joseph A. Schumpeter: One of the founders of evolutionary economics Heinz D. Kurz

2. Thorstein Bunde Veblen: A founder of evolutionary economics Helge Peukert

3. The foundational evolutionary traverse of Richard R. Nelson and Sidney G. Winter Isabel Almudi and Francisco Fatas-Villafranca

4. F. A. Hayek and evolutionary Austrian economics Viktor J. Vanberg

5. Kenneth Boulding’s contribution to evolutionary economics Stefan Kesting                                                                                       

6. Evolutionary economics and psychology: Where we are, where we could go Brendan Markey-Towler  

7. Evolutionary cultural science Carsten Hermann-Pillath

8. Evolutionary economics and economic history Andreas Resch

9. Why an evolutionary economic geography? The spatial economy as a complex evolving system Ron L. Martin and Peter J. Sunley

10. Darwin’s ideas and their mixed reception in evolutionary economics Gabriel Yoguel and Verónica Robert

11. Computational evolutionary economics: Minimal principle and minimum intelligence Shu-Heng Chen

12. Evolutionary modelling and the rule-based approachThomas Grebel

13. Contingency in evolutionary economics: Causality and comparative analysis Marco Lehmann-Waffenschmidt 

14. The firm as an experimental decision maker Gunnar Eliasson

15. Evolutionary economics, routines, and dynamic capabilities David J. Teece

16. Routines Markus C. Becker

17. Organizational routines Nathalie Lazaric

18. Memes Michael P. Schlaile, Walter Veit, and Maarten Boudry

19. The path dependence of knowledge and innovation Cristiano Antonelli and Pier Paolo Patrucco

20. Evolutionary Consumer Theory Andreas Chai and Zakaria Babutsidze

21. Evolutionary price theory Harry Bloch

22. The coevolution of innovation and demand Pier Paolo Saviotti

Part II: Evolutionary economic policy and political economy

23. Evolutionary economic policy and competitiveness Michael Peneder

24. Smart specialisation Dominique Foray

25. Evolutionary economic geography and policy Ron Boschma

26. Global knowledge embeddedness Holger Graf and Martin Kalthaus

27. Macro-evolutionary modelling of climate policies Karolina Safarzynska

28. The visible hand of innovation policy Uwe Cantner and Claudia  Werker

29. Generalized rules, Nelson-Winter routines, and Ostrom rules Georg D. Blind

30. Democracy as an evolutionary process Isabel Almudi and Francisco Fatas-Villafranca

31. Public entrepreneurship in economic evolution Jan Schnellenbach

32. Evolutionary political economy Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

33. Division of labor as co-evolutionary process of ecology, technology, culture, organization, and knowledge Ping Chen

34. Evolutionary economics and LDCs: An African perspective J. Fagerberg, E. Kraemer-Mbula, and E. Lorenz

35. Globalization and its governance in an evolutionary perspective Pascal Petit

 

Biography

Kurt Dopfer is Professor Emeritus at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Richard R. Nelson is Professor Emeritus at Columbia University, New York, USA.

Jason Potts is Professor at RMIT, Melbourne, Australia.

Andreas Pyka is Professor at University Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.