ABSTRACT

The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic change? Economic Evolution explores three of the main approaches within the new institutional economics:* the new theory of the firm,* Nelson and Winter's evolutionary economics * game theoretic accoun

chapter 1|10 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I FIRMS AND INDUSTRIES

chapter 3|24 pages

BREAKING OPEN THE BLACK BOX

The new theory of the firm

chapter 4|22 pages

MODELLING THE SELECTION ARGUMENT

Nelson and Winter’s evolutionary theory

part |2 pages

Part II FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION AND EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS

chapter 5|18 pages

FUNCTIONAL EXPLANATION

chapter 6|24 pages

TWO EVOLUTIONARY MECHANISMS

part |2 pages

Part III INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS