Evolutionary Economics
Its Nature and Future
Published on 31. July 2019
978-1-108-78191-6 (ISBN)
Description
This Element examines the historical emergence of evolutionary economics, its development into a strong research theme after 1980, and how it has hosted a diverse set of approaches. Its focus on complexity, economic dynamics and bounded rationality is underlined. Its core ideas are compared with those of mainstream economics. But while evolutionary economics has inspired research in a number of areas in business studies and social science, these have become specialized and fragmented. Evolutionary economics lacks a sufficiently-developed core theory that might promote greater conversation across these fields. A possible unifying framework is generalized Darwinism. Stronger links could also be made with other areas of evolutionary research, such as with evolutionary anthropology and evolutionary psychology. As evolutionary economics has migrated from departments of economics to business schools, institutes of innovation studies and elsewhere, it also needs to address the problem of its lack of a single disciplinary location within academia.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises; 1 Plates, color; 2 Line drawings, black and white
File size
1,53 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-108-78191-6 (9781108781916)
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10/2019
Cambridge University Press
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Content
1. Introduction; 2. The emergence of modern evolutionary economics; 3. Evolutionary and mainstream economics compared; 4. Evolutionary economics and evolutionary game theory; 5. The 'invisible college' of evolutionary thought; 6. Problems of identity and strategy; 7. Back to ontological basics; 8. The need for general evolutionary principles; 9. Evolutionary understandings of economic agency; 10. Conclusion - has evolutionary economics a future?
