This volume outlines a novel approach to the analysis of structural economic dynamics. It is based on detailed considerations of micro-organizational features of economic systems, and how networking patterns of technological and institutional change influence them. This is a much-needed basis for work in economic dynamics, considering interactions between emergent structures and historically evolving constraints. The work breaks new ground in the investigation of the relationship between economic theory and economic history.

Richard Goodwin was a pioneer in the use of mathematical tools to understand the dynamics of capitalist economies. This volume consists of three parts which significantly extend work in the tradition of Goodwin's research program.