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Evolutionary and Neo-Schumpeterian Approaches to Economics

Author : Lars Magnusson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
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Release : 2007-11-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780585351551

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not gentle to the capitalists" (Schumpeter, 1991). Thus, by instead portraying the conflict between entreprenuerial activity and the sociology of the modern state, he came quite close to the analysis carried out by Thorstein Veblen some decades earlier, who emphasized the conflict between p- gressive technology and the institutions of a contemporary "predatory dynastic State of early modern times, superficially altered by a suffusion of democratic and parliamentary institutions" (Veblen, 1964, p. 398). Modern neo-Schumpeterian approaches have continued to build on this groundwork provided by their master. During recent years there has been a great upsurge of discussion on technology, innovations, technological regimes, etc. from the dynamic perspective provided by Schumpeter (Dosi, 1984, Rosegger, 1985; Dosi et al., 1988). Thus the search process for (t- poral) extra profits has been stressed and has been used for modelling attempts. The wider institutional framework for technological change and innovation activity has also been strongly developed more recently. Hence emphasis has grown in the study of technological and industrial regimes, path dependency, and the network approach, developed recently, that social relationships structure the opportunities and constraints that face firms and agents that, for example, carry out innovations (Snehota, 1990).

The Evolutionary Analysis of Economic Policy

Author : Pavel Pelikán,Gerhard Wegner
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026616602

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Traditional doctrines of economic policy have largely failed to address the fact that human economies are evolving, complex adaptive systems rather than equilibrating mechanisms. This volume represents a step towards a more evolutionary approach to economic policy.

Elgar Companion to Neo-Schumpeterian Economics

Author : Horst Hanusch,Andreas Pyka
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 1229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781847207012

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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.

Economics and Evolution

Author : Jan Reijnders
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015040616586

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Presents an overview of principal characteristics of the modern evolutionary approach to economics and offers insight into the ideas of some of its important representatives and fields of application. Begins with a concise history of evolutionary economics, then discusses its relationship with neoclassical economics, arguing that the two approaches are complementary. Discusses the firm from an evolutionary and neoclassical standpoint, then looks at modern model building in relation to Schumpeter's work and to technological change. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Evolutionary Economics

Author : Esben Sloth Andersen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1855673835

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First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Foundations of Economic Change

Author : Andreas Pyka,Uwe Cantner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319620091

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Foundations of Economic Change by Andreas Pyka,Uwe Cantner Pdf

The book illustrates the considerable advances in modern evolutionary economics and addresses core questions of economic behaviour, interaction of heterogeneous actors in uncertain environments and the possibility of aggregating observations on a macro-economic level. It presents the foundations of economic change as the major building blocks of an economic approach that focusses on complex processes driven by endogenous innovation as well as crisis. The theoretical considerations are complemented by econometric studies to demonstrate the relevance of evolutionary-economic thinking to improve our understanding of the most challenging issues related to economic growth and development.

Explaining Process and Change

Author : Ulrich Witt
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472102915

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International experts discuss new applications for evolutionary economics

Modern Evolutionary Economics

Author : Richard R. Nelson,Giovanni Dosi,Constance E. Helfat,Andreas Pyka,Sidney G. Winter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108427432

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Modern Evolutionary Economics by Richard R. Nelson,Giovanni Dosi,Constance E. Helfat,Andreas Pyka,Sidney G. Winter Pdf

Presents the evolutionary perspective of the economy as perpetually moving, driven by innovation, and the empirical research this has guided.

Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-based Economy

Author : Andreas Pyka,Horst Hanusch
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781845428990

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Applied Evolutionary Economics and the Knowledge-based Economy by Andreas Pyka,Horst Hanusch Pdf

This book focuses on knowledge-based economies and attempts to analyze dynamic innovation driven processes within those economies. It shows that evolutionary economics, and in particular the strand of applied industry and innovation studies often called Neo-Schumpeterian economics, has left the nursery of new academic approaches and is able to offer important insights for the understanding of socio-economic processes of change and development having a strong impact on economic reality all over the world. The contributions are summarized under four major sections knowledge and cognition, studies of knowledge-based industries, the geographical dimension of knowledge-based economies and measuring and modelling for knowledge-based economies and give a broad overview of the prolific research being undertaken in applied evolutionary economics. Students will find this book an invaluable resource for future research, as will researchers seeking an introduction to new methods and perspectives of analysis.

Foundations of Post-Schumpeterian Economics

Author : Beniamino Callegari
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429560231

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The neo-Schumpeterian interpretation dominating the field of evolutionary economics puts focus on technological innovation, Darwinian evolution and economic growth, and has proven to be fertile ground for the past forty years. However, as the evolutionary school attempts to engage with a world of inequality, financialization and economic fragility, the limits of such an interpretation begin to show. Contributing to the development of a more balanced post-Schumpeterian economics, this book offers a complementary interpretation of Schumpeter’s theory which is based on economic innovation, Bergsonian creative evolution and monetary mechanisms and institutions. The theoretical consequences of this new interpretation are significant and numerous. First, it leads to a conceptual separation of economic and technological innovation. Second, it offers a deeper integration of monetary and financial elements within the theory of the process of development, illustrating the adaptive and planning role provided by financial speculation under capitalist conditions. Third, it provides the foundations for a post-Schumpeterian theory of capitalist crisis, built on the relationship between innovation funding, the institutional development of banking and speculative credit creation. Finally, by discussing several key recent developments in evolutionary economics, the interpretation illustrates the opportunities unlocked by a pluralist approach to disciplinary development, aiming towards the development of a comprehensive post-Schumpeterian approach to economics. This text is essential reading for scholars and students of Schumpeter, evolutionary economics, post-Keynesian economics, institutional economics and all economists interested in the ontological, methodological and theoretical challenges posed by economic development.

The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems

Author : Andreas Pyka,John Foster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319132990

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The Evolution of Economic and Innovation Systems by Andreas Pyka,John Foster Pdf

This book is at the cutting edge of the ongoing ‘neo-Schumpeterian’ research program that investigates how economic growth and its fluctuation can be understood as the outcome of a historical process of economic evolution. Much of modern evolutionary economics has relied upon biological analogy, especially about natural selection. Although this is valid and useful, evolutionary economists have, increasingly, begun to build their analytical representations of economic evolution on understandings derived from complex systems science. In this book, the fact that economic systems are, necessarily, complex adaptive systems is explored, both theoretically and empirically, in a range of contexts. Throughout, there is a primary focus upon the interconnected processes of innovation and entrepreneurship, which are the ultimate sources of all economic growth. Twenty two chapters are provided by renowned experts in the related fields of evolutionary economics and the economics of innovation.

Long-run Economics

Author : Norman Clark,Calestous Juma
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781472511621

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Long-run Economics by Norman Clark,Calestous Juma Pdf

A major problem of conventional economic theory as applied to long-run economic change is its unduly narrow and static character, which compromises its capacity to handle conceptually a social process inherently systemic, complex and dynamic. At the same time there is a growing realization in relevant government and industrial circles (reinforced by the example of Japan) that effective economic policy-making needs a strategic, and therefore a technological, content. Long-Run Economics suggests a more realistic conceptual framework for the analysis of economic and technological change. Borrowing from other disciplines, such as sociology, psychology and biology, the authors develop a model that is evolutionary and systemic in character. Special emphasis is given to the role of information flows in the innovative process, while the overall argument is illustrated by two case studies, photovoltaics and fuel ethanol. Finally, the book stresses the strategic importance of science and technology policy and the role of appropriate institutions in facilitating long-run economic change.

Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics

Author : Richard W. England
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472104837

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Evolutionary Concepts in Contemporary Economics by Richard W. England Pdf

This anthology reports on a number of contemporary attempts to introduce evolutionary concepts into economic analysis.

The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics

Author : Manuel Scholz-Wackerle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136008641

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The Foundations of Evolutionary Institutional Economics by Manuel Scholz-Wackerle Pdf

Generic institutionalism offers a new perspective on institutional economic change within an evolutionary framework. The institutional landscape shapes the social fabric and economic organization in manifold ways. The book elaborates on the ubiquity of such institutional forms with regards to their emergence, durability and exit in social agency-structure relations. Thereby institutions are considered as social learning environments changing the knowledge base of the economy along generic rule-sets in non-nomological ways from within. Specific attention is given to a theoretical structuring of the topic in ontology, heuristics and methodology. Part I introduces a generic naturalistic ontology by comparing prevalent ontological claims in evolutionary economics and preparing them for a broader pluralist and interdisciplinary discourse. Part II reconsiders these ontological claims and confronts it with prevalent heuristics, conceptualizations and projections of institutional change. In this respect the book revisits the institutional economic thought of Thorstein Veblen, Friedrich August von Hayek, Joseph Alois Schumpeter and Pierre Bourdieu. A synthesis is suggested in an application of the generic rule-based approach. Part III discusses the implementation of rule-based bottom-up models of institutional change and provides a basic prototype agent-based computational simulation. The evolution of power relations plays an important role in the programming of real-life communication networks. This notion characterizes the discussed policy realms (Part IV) of ecological and financial sustainability as tremendously complex areas of institutional change in political economy, leading to the concluding topic of democracy in practice. The novelty of this approach is given by its modular theoretical structure. It turns out that institutional change is carried substantially by affective social orders in contrast to rational orders as communicated in orthodox economic realms. The characteristics of affective orders are derived theoretically from intersections between ontology and heuristics, where interdependencies between instinct, cognition, rationality, reason, social practice, habit, routine or disposition are essential for the embodiment of knowledge. This kind of research indicates new generic directions to study social learning in particular and institutional evolution in general.

Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution

Author : Yuichi Shionoya,Tamotsu Nishizawa
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781848446168

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Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution by Yuichi Shionoya,Tamotsu Nishizawa Pdf

This collection of essays offers a fresh and challenging interpretation which departs from the received views of two giants among the greatest economists of all times. Distinguished scholars of Marshall and Schumpeter engage in a lively discussion of their work and convincingly argue that, despite their differences, they shared a common drive towards a broader type of social science beyond economics. It is an intriguing account that will not fail to attract and fascinate the majority of readers. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Università di Roma, Italy Ever since the development of the theory of biological evolution in the middle of the nineteenth century, evolutionary doctrine has posed challenges to economics. These came directly from the work of Darwin and Huxley and indirectly through economic history and the juxtaposition of dynamics with comparative statics the approach widely adopted by economists by the end of the century. The eminent historians of economics, Yuichi Shionoya and Tamotsu Nishizawa, together with a distinguished team of specialists, have produced an important set of essays that examine the positions on evolution of Marshall and Schumpeter and the economists who surrounded them. This collection is a valuable contribution to the history of economics and is highly relevant to controversies that rage still in the economics discipline today. Craufurd Goodwin, Duke University, US Traditionally it was understood that while Marshall was the synthesizer of neoclassical economics, Schumpeter challenged the dynamic conception of the economy in place of the static structure of economics. While historians of economic thought rarely discuss the work of Alfred Marshall and Joseph Schumpeter jointly, the contributors to this book do exactly this from the perspective of evolutionary thought. This unique and original work contends that, despite the differences between Marshallian and Schumpeterian thinking, they both present formidable challenges to a broad type of social science beyond economics, particularly under the influence of the German historical school. In a departure from the received view on the nature of the works of Marshall and Schumpeter, the contributors explore their themes in terms of an evolutionary vision and method of evolution; social science and evolution; conceptions of evolution; and evolution and capitalism. This timely resource will provide a stimulus not only to Marshall and Schumpeter scholarship within the history of economic thought but also to the recent efforts of economists to explore a research field beyond mainstream equilibrium economics. It will therefore prove a fascinating read for academics, students and researchers of evolutionary and heterodox economics and historians of economic thought.