文档介绍：Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics
Frontiers of Evolutionary
Economics
Competition, anization and Innovation
Policy
Edited by
John Foster
Professor of Economics and Head of the School of Economics,
The University of Queensland,
Brisbane, Australia
and
J. Stanley Metcalfe
Stanley Jevons Professor of Economics
and Co-Director,
ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation petition,
University of Manchester, UK
Edward Elgar
Cheltenham, UK • Northampton, MA, USA
© John Foster and J. Stanley Metcalfe 2001
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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data
Frontiers of evolutionary economics : competition, anization, and innovation
policy / edited by John Foster and J. Stanley Metcalfe.
Based on papers mentaries from a workshop held at the University of
Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, in July 1999.
Includes index.
1. Evolutionary economics. 2. Rational expectations (Economic theory)
3. Economic development. I. Foster, John, 1947–. II. Metcalfe, J. S. (J. Stanley)
.F76 2001
330—dc21
00–046640
ISBN 1 8 4064 525 3
Typeset by Manton Typesetters, Louth, Lincolnshire, UK.
Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Cornwall.
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface ix
1 Modern evolutionary economic perspectives: an overview 1
John Foster and J. Stanley Metcalfe
PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
2 The coevolution of technology and institutions as the driver of
economic growth 19