文档介绍：Economics, Evolution and the State
Economics, Evolution
and the State
The Governance plexity
Edited by
Kurt Dopfer
Professor of Economics, University of St Gallen, Switzerland
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© Kurt Dopfer 2005
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Contents
List of contributors vii
Introduction 1
Kurt Dopfer
PART I ECONOMIC EVOLUTION AS OPEN PROCESS
1 Heterogeneity and evolutionary change – concepts and
measurement 13
Uwe Cantner and Horst Hanusch
2 Is the notion of patible with an evolutionary
view of the economy? 43
C. Christian von Weizsäcker
3Reconciling evolutionary economics with liberalism 58
Gerhard Wegner
4 Historical economics and evolutionary economic policy –
Coasean perspectives 78
Matthias Klaes
PART II ANISATION WORKS
5 The concept anisation – biotechnology-based
industries as exemplar 99
Andreas Pyka and P. Paolo Saviotti
6 Sociodynamics – an integrated approach to modelling in the
social sciences 120
Wolfgang Weidlich
7 The concept of space in trade – some evolutionary basics 140
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
8 Economic policy – a process munication 168
Lambert T. Koch
9Why endogeneity is not enough to explain technological
change – a critique of Paul Romer 190
Malcolm H. Dunn
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PART III THE POLITICAL ECONOMY PLEXITY
10 Innovation and the learning polic