Hayek’s theory of cultural evolution has always generated controversy. Interest in Hayek’s theory, and others’ analysis and criticism of it, has been rising of late. This volume urges a reconsideration of Hayeks’ theory of evolution and aims to explore the relevance of Hayek’s theory for its own sake and for evolutionary economics more generally.
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- Series: New Horizons in Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series x
- Economics 2010 and before x
Entrepreneurship, Money and Coordination
Hayek’s Theory of Cultural Evolution
Edited by Jürgen G. Backhaus
Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy
Survival of the Greenest
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Albert Faber, Annemarth M. Idenburg and Frans H. Oosterhuis
This study offers a unique evolutionary economics perspective on energy and innovation policies in the wider context of the transition to sustainable development.
Institutional Economics and the Formation of Preferences
The Advent of Pop Music
Wilfred Dolfsma
The formation of preferences is an elusive subject that many social scientists, and especially economists, have tended to avoid. In this original new book, Wilfred Dolfsma combines institutional economics with insights from the other social sciences to analyse the way in which preferences are formed in a social context.
Mehrdad Vahabi
Economic science has extensively studied the creative power of individuals and social groups, but it has largely ignored the destructive power of economic agents. This highly original book redresses the balance and, for the first time, looks at how much an agent can destroy. Destructive power is conceptualised in a unique way, covering all types of deliberate (violent and non-violent) social conflict behaviour. The theoretical arguments in the book are skilfully linked to burning political issues of our time such as the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Second Gulf War.
Edited by Lars Magnusson and Jan Ottosson
The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path dependence have developed and evolved.
The authors suggest that there has been a definite evolution from applications of path dependence in the history of technology towards other fields of social science. They also discuss the various definitions of path dependence (strong or weak) and explore the potential applications of path dependence in new areas such as political economy and economic geography.
Monograph Chapter
In Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega
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- 27 Nov 2002
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
No man is an island: the research programme of a social capital theory
Markets, Networks and Hierarchies
Henk Flap
Monograph Chapter
In Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega
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- 27 Nov 2002
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
Monograph Chapter
In Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega
- Published in print:
- 27 Nov 2002
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
Institutional embeddedness of economic exchange: convergence between new institutional economics and the economics of conventions
Markets, Networks and Hierarchies
Christian Bessy
Monograph Chapter
In Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega
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- 27 Nov 2002
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before
Transaction cost economics and governance structures: applications, developments and perspectives
Markets, Networks and Hierarchies
Didier Chabaud and Stéphane Saussier
Monograph Chapter
In Conventions and Structures in Economic Organization
Edited by Olivier Favereau and Emmanuel Lazega
- Published in print:
- 27 Nov 2002
Collection:
Economics 2010 and before