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Economic Evolution

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An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics

Economic Evolution

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An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics
ByJack J Vromen
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 1995
eBook Published 19 October 1995
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203434000
Pages 256
eBook ISBN 9780429231650
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry
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Vromen, J.J. (1995). Economic Evolution: An Inquiry into the Foundations of the New Institutional Economics (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203434000

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

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|10 pages

INTRODUCTION

part |2 pages

Part I FIRMS AND INDUSTRIES

chapter 2|28 pages

SELECTION ARGUMENTS PRO AND CONTRA THE NEOCLASSICAL THEORY OF THE FIRM

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

chapter 7|27 pages

ALTRUISM AND UNITS OF SELECTION

chapter 8|32 pages

THE CULTURAL EVOLUTION OF BEHAVIOURAL DISPOSITIONS

chapter 9|25 pages

A REALIST RECONSTRUCTION OF ECONOMIC EVOLUTIONARY THEORY

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