Innovation, Complexity and Economic Evolution: From Theory to Policy
In: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- 1 Economics, Qualitative Change, and Discontinuities -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Man-made Artefacts and Structural Change in Socioeconomic Systems -- 2.1 MMAs and the Twin Characteristic Representation -- 2.2 Generalized Production of Services -- 2.3 MMAs, Wants, Needs and Basic Human Functions -- 3 Qualitative Change and Economic Development -- 3.1 The Evolution of MMAs -- 3.2 Capital Goods -- 3.3 Variety vs Differentiation -- 3.4 Efficiency and Creativity -- 4 Analytical Implications of the Twin Characteristic Representation -- 4.1 Competition -- 4.2 Demand Theory -- 2 The Coevolution of Innovation, Technologies and Institutions -- 1 Technologies and Innovation -- 1.1 Innovation Concepts and the Twin Characteristic Representation -- 1.2 Institutions and Organizational Forms -- 1.2.1 The Modern Firm -- 1.3 Transformations and Transitions -- 3 Adaptive Behaviour as the most General form of Socioeconomic Behaviour -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Adaptation and Systems -- 2.1 System Stability and Change -- 2.2 System Dynamics -- 2.3 Closed and open Systems -- 3 Adaptive Behaviour -- 3.1 ADTO and ADOF -- 3.2 Collective and Individual Adaptation -- 3.3 Adaptation, Stability, and Change -- 3.4 Fitness -- 3.5 Barriers to Adaptation -- 3.5.1 Imperfect or Partial Adaptation -- 3.5.2 Imperfection in Biological Evolution -- 3.5.3 Statics vs Dynamics -- 3.5.4 Structural Barriers -- 3.5.5 Cognitive Barriers -- 3.5.6 Political Barriers -- 3.5.7 Decision-making -- 4 Adaptive Behaviour vs Optimizing Rationality -- 4 Knowledge and Economics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Some Considerations on the Nature of Knowledge -- 2.1 Knowledge as Adaptation -- 2.2 Two Properties of Knowledge -- 2.2.1 Knowledge as a Co-relational Structure.
