Evolutionary Economics and Chaos Theory: New Directions in Technology Studies, Vol. 1
It is timely to raise the question of the relationship between evolutionary economics and chaos theory particularly within the perspective of new developments in technology. This volume covers developments in non-linear dynamics as applied to the dynamics of economic-technological systems. Contributions from sociology are incorporated into a new paradigm thus generating new and more appropriate models.
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It is timely to raise the question of the relationship between evolutionary economics and chaos theory particularly within the perspective of new developments in technology. This volume covers developments in non-linear dynamics as applied to the dynamics of economic-technological systems. Contributions from sociology are incorporated into a new paradigm thus generating new and more appropriate models.
List of ContributorsPreface1Evolutionary Complex Systems: Models of Technology Change12Economic Growth via the Coevolution of Technology and Institutions213Technological Diversity, Random Selection in a Population of Firms, and Technological Institutions of Government334A Note on Competition among Techniques in the Presence of Increasing Returns to Scale445Evolution of Technological Growth in a Model Based on Stochastic Cellular Automata556Dynamics of Competitive Technology Diffusion Through Local Network Structures: The Case of EDI Document Standards637Hyperselection and Innovation Described by a Stochastic Model of Technological Evolution798Evolutionary Dynamics in Technological Systems: A Multi-layer Niche Approach939Entrainment in a Disaggregated Economic Long-wave Model10910Managing Uncertainty in Complex Systems: Financial Markets12511Academic-Industry Relations: A Sociological Paradigm for Economic Development13912Nonequilibria Dynamics and the Sociology of Technology15213The Evolution of Technology: A Model of Socio-ecological Self-organization167Epilogue18014New Models of Technological Change: New Theories for Technology Studies?180Bibliography193Index210
