Complexity and evolution : toward a new synthesis for economics / edited by David S. Wilson and Alan Kirman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilson, David S., 1942- editor.

Kirman, A. P., editor.

Series:

Strüngmann Forum reports

Strüngmann Forum Reports

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics.

Economics--Psychological aspects.

Organizational change.

Physical Description:

xi, 393 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusettes : MIT Press, 2016.

Contents:

The Ernst Strüngmann Forum

List of contributors

Introduction

Challenges of integrating complexity and evolution

Disequilibrium adjustment and economic outcomes / Alan Kirman and Rajiv Sethi

Meanings of complex adaptive systems / David S. Wilson

Evolution and market complexity / John E. Mayfield

Challenges of integrating complexity and evolution into economics / Robert Axtell, Alan Kirman, Iain D. Couzin, Daniel Fricke, Thorsten Hens, Michael E. Hochberg, John E. Mayfi eld, Peter Schuster, and Rajiv Sethi

Evolutionary behavioral economics

Proximate mechanisms of individual decision-making behavior / Paul W. Glimcher

A typology of human morality / Herbert Gintis

Evolutionary behavioral economics / Terence C. Burnham, Stephen E.G. Lea, Adrian V. Bell, Herbert Gintis, Paul W. Glimcher, Robert Kurzban, Leonhard Lades, Kevin McCabe, Karthik Panchanathan, Miriam Teschl, and Ulrich Witt

Evolution of institutions and organizations

The diffusion of institutions / Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

Robust institutional design : what makes some institutions more adaptable and resilient to changes in their environment than others? / Jenna Bednar

Evolvability of organizations and institutions / John F. Padgett

Evolution of institutions and organizations / Thomas Currie, Peter Turchin, Jenna Bednar, Peter J. Richerson, Georg Schwesinger, Sven Steinmo, Romain Wacziarg, and John Wallis

Shaping the evolution of complex societies

Adaptation and maladaptation in the past: a case study and some implications / Sander E. van der Leeuw

Innovation policy as creating markets, not only fixing them : implications for complexity theory / Mariana Mazzucato

Complexity economics and workaday economic policy / David Colander

Advancing agent_zero / Joshua M. Epstein and Julia Chelen

Not half bad : a modest criterion for inclusion / Scott E. Page

Shaping the evolution of complex societies : an evolutionary approach to economic policy / John Gowdy, Mariana Mazzucato, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Sander E. van der Leeuw, and David S. Wilson

Bibliography

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-351) and indexes.

ISBN:

9780262035385

0262035383

OCLC:

946160462