Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics: Competition, Self-Organization and Innovation Policy

Introduction - modern evolutionary economic perspectives - an overview, John Foster and Stan Metcalfe. Part 1 Theoretical perspectives: the coevolution of technology and institutions as the driver of economic growth, Richard Nelson, commentary -institutions, macroevolution and economic selection, John Gowdy from evolution to language and learning, Bart Nooteboom, commentary, Paolo Ramazzotti theorizing complexity, Robert Delorme, commentary - simplicity in theories of complexity - defining, knowing and doing, Drew Wollin self-organizing and Darwinian selection in economic and biological evolutions - an inquiry into the sources of organizing information, Pavel Pelikan, commentary - the origins of successful economic organizations - a Darwinian explanation with room for self-organizing, Bryan Morgan history friendly theories in economics - reconciling universality and context in evolutionary analysis, Kurt Dopfer, commentary, Jason Potts. Part 2 Empirical perspectives: considerations about a production system with qualitative change, Paolo Saviotti heterogeneity and evolutionary change - empirical conception, findings and unresolved issues, Horst Hanusch and Uwe Cantner, commentary, John Nightingale measuring complexity - puzzles and tentative solutions, Francisco Louca, commentary, Steve Keen knowledge, ignorance and the evolution of complex systems, Peter Allen, commentary, Kevin Bryant promoting innovation - an overview of the application of evolutionary economics and systems approaches to policy issues, Kevin Bryant.