Escaping Satiation

Author : Ulrich Witt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662045282

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Escaping Satiation by Ulrich Witt Pdf

The collection of papers presented in this special issue arose out of two events. The first was the symposium "Escaping Satiation - Increasing Product Variety, Preference Change and the Demand Side of Economic Growth" which was held at the Max Planck Institute in Jena, Germany, in December 1997. The Fritz Thyssen Foundation provided financial support for this seminal symposium which is gratefully acknowledged. Wilhelm Ruprecht was of great help in preparing the symposium and I would like to express my gratitude to hirn on this occasion. Many stimulating exchanges with hirn over the past few years while he was a research associate at the Institute working on long term changes in consumption convinced me of the relevance and importance of this problem for understanding modem economic growth. I also owe thanks to many people who encouraged me to go ahead with the symposium, among them Stanley Metcalfe, Carl Christian von Weizsäcker, and also Ehud Zuscovitch, who died so unexpectedly last year.

Author : Andreas Chai,Chad M. Baum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030024239

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Demand, Complexity, and Long-Run Economic Evolution by Andreas Chai,Chad M. Baum Pdf

The purpose of this contributed volume is to consider how global consumption patterns will develop in the next few decades, and what the consequences of that development will be for the economy, policymakers, and society at large. In the long run, the extent to which economic growth translates into better living conditions strongly depends on how rising affluence and new technologies shape consumer preferences. The ongoing rise in household income in developing countries raises some important questions: Will consumption patterns always continue to expand in the same manner as we have witnessed in the previous two centuries? If not, how might things evolve differently? And what implications would such changes hold for not only our understanding of consumption behavior but also our pursuit of more sustainable societies?

Author : Uwe Cantner,Giovanni Dosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110509205

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Frontiers in Evolutionary Economics by Uwe Cantner,Giovanni Dosi Pdf

Author : Kurt Dopfer,Richard R Nelson,Jason Potts,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429677724

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Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics by Kurt Dopfer,Richard R Nelson,Jason Potts,Andreas Pyka Pdf

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 innovations and selection processes. These often involved winners and losers, but most importantly, they resulted in actors learning what was and was not working. Evolutionary economics, in contrast to mainstream economics, emphasises the relevance of variables such as technology, institutions, decision rules, routines, or consumer preferences for explaining the complex evolutionary changes in the economy. In so doing, evolutionary economics significantly broadens the scope of economic analysis, and sheds new light on key concepts and issues of the discipline. This handbook draws on a stellar cast list of international contributors, ranging from the founders of the field to the newest voices. The volume explores the current state of the art in the field of evolutionary economics at the levels of the micro (e.g. firms and households), meso (e.g. industries and institutions), and macro (e.g. economic policy, structure, and growth). Overall, the Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Economics provides an excellent overview of current trends and issues in this rapidly developing field.

Author : Horst Siebert
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003-03-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3540003169

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Challenges to the World Economy by Horst Siebert Pdf

This volume, in a sense, aims at reflecting the qualities of the honoree and it does so in two respects. On the one hand, it covers a great variety of subdisciplines of economics. On the other hand, the book ranges from theoretical and mathematical economics to hands-on applied analyses of economic-policy issues. All essays are driven by the aspiration to better understand the economy and to draw relevant conclusions for economic policy. The book is divided into five parts dealing with the German economy, European economic issues, global markets, international trade theory and policy, and natural resources and the environment.

Author : Thomas Brenner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461550297

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Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics by Thomas Brenner Pdf

Computational Techniques for Modelling Learning in Economics offers a critical overview of the computational techniques that are frequently used for modelling learning in economics. It is a collection of papers, each of which focuses on a different way of modelling learning, including the techniques of evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, neural networks, classifier systems, local interaction models, least squares learning, Bayesian learning, boundedly rational models and cognitive learning models. Each paper describes the technique it uses, gives an example of its applications, and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the technique. Hence, the book offers some guidance in the field of modelling learning in computation economics. In addition, the material contains state-of-the-art applications of the learning models in economic contexts such as the learning of preference, the study of bidding behaviour, the development of expectations, the analysis of economic growth, the learning in the repeated prisoner's dilemma, and the changes of cognitive models during economic transition. The work even includes innovative ways of modelling learning that are not common in the literature, for example the study of the decomposition of task or the modelling of cognitive learning.

Author : Horst Hanusch,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847207012

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Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics by Horst Hanusch,Andreas Pyka Pdf

The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics is a cutting-edge collection of specially commissioned contributions highlighting not only the broad scope but also the common ground between all branches of this prolific and fast developing field of economics. For 25 years economists have been investigating industrial dynamics under the heading of neo-Schumpeterian economics, which has itself become a mature and widely acknowledged discipline in the fields of innovation, knowledge, growth and development economics. The Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics surveys the achievements of the most visible scholars in this area. The contributions to the Companion give both a brief survey on the various fields of neo-Schumpeterian economics as well as insights into recent research at the scientific frontiers. The book also illustrates the potential of neo-Schumpeterian economics to overcome its so far self-imposed restriction to the domains of technology driven industry dynamics, and to become a comprehensive approach in economics suited for the analysis of development processes in all economic domains. Integrating both the public sector and financial markets, the book focusses on the co-evolutionary processes between the different domains. As a roadmap for the development of a comprehensive neo-Schumpeterian theory, the Companion will be an invaluable source of reference for researchers in the fields of industrial dynamics and economic growth, and academics and scholars of economics generally. PhD students will find the Companion an indispensable general introduction to the field of neo-Schumpeterian economics. It will also appeal to politicians and consultants engaged in national and international policy as the Companion deals with the highly important and ever topical phenomena of economic development.

Author : Francesco Crespi,Francesco Quatraro
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134468812

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The Economics of Knowledge, Innovation and Systemic Technology Policy by Francesco Crespi,Francesco Quatraro Pdf

There is wide consensus on the importance of knowledge for economic growth and local development patterns. This book proposes a view of knowledge as a collective, systemic and evolutionary process that enables agents and social systems to overcome the challenges of the limits to growth. It brings together new conceptual and empirical contributions, analysing the relationship between demand and supply factors and the rate and direction of technological change. It also examines the different elements that compose innovation systems. The Economics of Knowledge, Innovation and Systemic Technology Policy provides the background for the development of an integrated framework for the analysis of systemic policy instruments and their mutual interaction the socio-political and economic conditions of the surrounding environment. These aspects have long been neglected in innovation policy, as policymakers, academics and the business community, have mostly emphasized the benefits of supply side strategies. However, a better understanding of innovation policies grafted on a complexity-based approach calls for the appreciation of the mutual interactions between both supply and demand aspects, and it is likely to improve the actual design of policy measures. This book will help readers to understand the foundations and working of demand-driven innovation policies by stressing the importance of compent and smart demand.

Author : Davide Gualerzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135254896

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The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path of Transformational Growth. by Davide Gualerzi Pdf

In this book, Davide Gualerzi employs the concept of transformational growth to explore the investment-driven cycle of expansion of the 1990s in the US economy, and of the of role played by the ICT sector. The book articulates a view of demand-led growth in which the focus is on effective demand, the composition of the growth process and the link between changing composition and expansion.

Author : H.M. Krämer,Heinz Kurz,H.-M. Trautwein
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136329135

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Macroeconomics and the History of Economic Thought by H.M. Krämer,Heinz Kurz,H.-M. Trautwein Pdf

The essays in this Festschrift have been chosen to honour Harald Hagemann and his scientific work. They reflect his main contributions to economic research and his major fields of interest. The essays in the first part deal with various aspects within the history of economic thought. The second part is about the current state of macroeconomics. The essays in the third part of the book cover topics on economic growth and structural dynamics.

Author : Andreas Pyka,Esben Sloth Andersen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642351259

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Long Term Economic Development by Andreas Pyka,Esben Sloth Andersen Pdf

The book gives an overview of important research topics recently addressed in evolutionary Neo-Schumpeterian Economics. The list of research questions and applications of Neo-Schumpeterian reasoning impressively demonstrates the rich possibilities ranging from theoretical issues addressing human behaviour to applied areas like the emergence of biotechnology in developing countries, the role of innovation on financial markets and the R&D strategies of multinational enterprises. The chapters in this book bring together a rich set of new analytical and empirical methodologies which allow for new relevant and rigorous insights in innovation processes which are responsible for economic development and structural change.​

Author : Paula Findlen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351055727

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Early Modern Things by Paula Findlen Pdf

Early Modern Things supplies fresh and provocative insights into how objects – ordinary and extraordinary, secular and sacred, natural and man-made – came to define some of the key developments of the early modern world. Now in its second edition, this book taps a rich vein of recent scholarship to explore a variety of approaches to the material culture of the early modern world (c. 1500–1800). Divided into seven parts, the book explores the ambiguity of things, representing things, making things, encountering things, empires of things, consuming things, and the power of things. This edition includes a new preface and three new essays on ‘encountering things’ to enrich the volume. These look at cabinets of curiosities, American pearls, and the material culture of West Central Africa. Spanning across the early modern world from Ming dynasty China and Tokugawa Japan to Siberia and Georgian England, from the Kingdom of the Kongo and the Ottoman Empire to the Caribbean and the Spanish Americas, the authors provide a generous set of examples in how to study the circulation, use, consumption, and, most fundamentally, the nature of things themselves. Drawing on a broad range of disciplinary perspectives and lavishly illustrated, this updated edition of Early Modern Things is essential reading for all those interested in the early modern world and the history of material culture.

Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400829439

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The Gifts of Athena by Joel Mokyr Pdf

The growth of technological and scientific knowledge in the past two centuries has been the overriding dynamic element in the economic and social history of the world. Its result is now often called the knowledge economy. But what are the historical origins of this revolution and what have been its mechanisms? In The Gifts of Athena, Joel Mokyr constructs an original framework to analyze the concept of "useful" knowledge. He argues that the growth explosion in the modern West in the past two centuries was driven not just by the appearance of new technological ideas but also by the improved access to these ideas in society at large--as made possible by social networks comprising universities, publishers, professional sciences, and kindred institutions. Through a wealth of historical evidence set in clear and lively prose, he shows that changes in the intellectual and social environment and the institutional background in which knowledge was generated and disseminated brought about the Industrial Revolution, followed by sustained economic growth and continuing technological change. Mokyr draws a link between intellectual forces such as the European enlightenment and subsequent economic changes of the nineteenth century, and follows their development into the twentieth century. He further explores some of the key implications of the knowledge revolution. Among these is the rise and fall of the "factory system" as an organizing principle of modern economic organization. He analyzes the impact of this revolution on information technology and communications as well as on the public's state of health and the structure of households. By examining the social and political roots of resistance to new knowledge, Mokyr also links growth in knowledge to political economy and connects the economic history of technology to the New Institutional Economics. The Gifts of Athena provides crucial insights into a matter of fundamental concern to a range of disciplines including economics, economic history, political economy, the history of technology, and the history of science.

Author : Horst Entorf,Peter Winker
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783110508628

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Economics of Risky Behavior and Sensation Seeking by Horst Entorf,Peter Winker Pdf

Author : Mitt Nowshade Kabir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137348098

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Knowledge-Based Social Entrepreneurship by Mitt Nowshade Kabir Pdf

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise and social enterprises are solving some of the most critical and enduring social problems by using innovative, pragmatic and sustainable business models. Access to knowledge thanks to the Internet and rapid expansion of the knowledge economy are opening new opportunities for social ventures. With knowledge-based social entrepreneurship where knowledge is the primary resource, more pressing social problems can be addressed by using advanced technologies. This book investigates this emerging concept, possibilities that it holds, its place in today’s economy, and links bridges between knowledge, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. Academics, entrepreneurs, students, and NGOs will find the theoretical and practical information presented in this book extremely valuable.