The evolutionary foundations of economics

PROLEGOMENON --Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework /Kurt Dopfer --I. ONTOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS --A. Evolutionary physics: a non-Cartesian bridge to economics: --The rediscovery of value and the opening of economcis /Ilya Prigogine --Synergetics: from physics to economics /Hermann Haken --B. Evolutionary biology: the Mecca of economics: --Darwinism, altruism and economics /Herbert A. Simon --Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the 1880s to the 1980s /Geoffrey M. Hodgson --C. Evolutionary history: reconciling economic reality with theory: --Path dependence in economic processes: implications for policy analysis in dynamical system contexts /Paul A. David --Is there a theory of economic history? /Joel Mokyr --II. A FRAMEWORK FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANALYSIS --A. Evolutionary microeconomics: --Towards an evolutionary theory of production /Sidney G. Winter --Learning in evolutionary environments /Giovanni Dosi [and others] --The evolutionary perspective on organizational change and theory of the firm /Ulrich Witt --B. Evolutionary mesoeconomics: --The self-organizational perspective on economic evolution: a unifying paradigm /John Foster --Evolutionary concepts in relation to evolutionary economics /J. Stanley Metcalfe --Understanding social and economic systems as evolutionary complex systems /Peter M. ALlen --C. Evolutionary macroeconomics: --Perspectives on technological evolution /Richard R. Nelson --Evolutionary economic dynamics: persistent cycles, disruptive technology and the trade-off between stability and complexity /Ping Chen --Evolutionary theorizing on economic growth /Gerald Silverberg,Bart Verspagen.

It is widely recognised that mainstream economics has failed to translate micro consistently into macro economics and to provide endogenous explanations for the continual changes in the economic system. Since the early 1980s, a growing number of economists have been trying to provide answers to these two key questions by applying an evolutionary approach. This new departure has yielded a rich literature with enormous variety, but the unifying principles connecting the various ideas and views presented are, as yet, not apparent. This 2005 volume brings together fifteen original articles from scholars - each of whom has made a significant contribution to the field - in their common effort to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity to bridge micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges

It is widely recognised that mainstream economics has failed to translate micro consistently into macro economics and to provide endogenous explanations for the continual changes in the economic system. Since the early 1980s, a growing number of economists have been trying to provide answers to these two key questions by applying an evolutionary approach. This new departure has yielded a rich literature with enormous variety, but the unifying principles connecting the various ideas and views presented are, as yet, not apparent. This volume brings together fifteen original articles from scholars - each of whom has made a significant contribution to the field - in their common effort to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity to bridge micro and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified economic theory emerges, offering an entirely new approach to the foundations of economics.