Evolutionary Controversies in Economics: A New Transdisciplinary Approach

ISBN-13: 9784431703037 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 252 str.

Japan Association for Evolutionary Econo

Opis

In March 1997, we launched the Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics {JAFEE) to gather the academic minds that, out of dissatisfaction with established dynamic approaches, were separately searching for new approaches to economics. To our surprise and joy, as many as 500members, including graduate students, joined us. Later that year Prof. Horst Hanusch, then President of the International oseph A. Schumpeter Society, remarked that such a start would take a couple of decades in Europe to prepare for. Since then we have been developing our activities incessantly not only in terms of the number of members, but also in terms of the intensity of international academic exchange. Originally the planning of this book came about as the successful outcome of our fourth annual conference organized as an international one, JAFEE 2000.Incorporat ing other international contributions related to our preceding conferences, this book has eventually turned out to be one of the most enterprising anthologies on evolu tionary economics ever published. Specifically, it contains excellent papers on such topics as streams of evolutionary economics, evolutionary nonlinear dynamics, experimental economics and evolution, multiagent systems and complexity, new frontiers for evolutionary economics, and economic heresies. In short, this book will provide a vivid and full-fledged picture of up-to-date evolutionary economics.

Spis treści

Introduction: Toward a New Transdisciplinary Approach for Evolutionary Controversies.- I Streams of Evolutionary Economics.- A Viewpoint on Evolutionary Economic Theory.- How Can Evolutionary Economics Evolve?.- Economics and Darwinism.- II Evolutionary Nonlinear Dynamics.- Economic Development in the Arts, Crafts, and Sciences.- onlinear Dynamics of Debt and Capital: A Post-Keynesian Analysis.- Attractor Stability in Unemployment and Inflation Rates.- III Experimental Economics and Evolution.- volution and Negative Reciprocity.- Avatamsaka Game Structure and Experiment on the Web.- IV Multiagent Systems and Complexity.- On the Relevance of Genetic Programming to Evolutionary Economics.- Social Interaction and Coordination Failures in a Simple Model of Technology Adoption.- Effects of Competitive Metaplayers in the Distributed Social Dilemma.- V New Frontiers for Evolutionary Economics.- U-Mart: A Test Bed for Interdisciplinary Research into Agent-Based Artificial Markets.- Econophysics: Empirical Laws, Theory, and Application.- The Master Equation Approach to Self-Organization in Labor Mobility.- VI Economic Heresies.- From “Historical Time” to the Economics of Complexity.- Why Should Economists, Including (Old) Institutionalists, be Interested in Critical Realism?.- Author Index.