Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing (October 4, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1843763699
ISBN-13: 978-1843763697
Contents
Contributors vii
Preface viii
1 Introduction and overview 1
John Foster and Werner Hölzl
2 Econometrics and evolutionary economics 15
John Foster
3 Random walks and non-linear paths in macroeconomic time
series: some evidence and implications 36
Franco Bevilacqua and Adriaan van Zon
4 The use of genetic programming in evolutionary economics 78
Bernd Ebersberger and Andreas Pyka
5 Entropy statistics as a framework to analyse technological
evolution 95
Koen Frenken and Alessandro Nuvolari
6 Complementarity constraints and induced innovation: some
evidence from the first IT regime 133
Andreas Reinstaller and Werner Hölzl
7 An evolutionary approach to the theory of entrepreneurship 155
Thomas Grebel, Andreas Pyka and Horst Hanusch
8 Shakeout in industrial dynamics: new developments, new
puzzles 181
Jackie Krafft
9 High growth with ‘old’ industries? The Austrian Paradox
revisited 197
Michael Peneder
10 Changing structure – keeping location: from musical
instruments to electronics in the accordion district of Ancona 220
Deborah Tappi
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11 Evolutionary thinking in environmental economics: retrospect and
prospect
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh 239
Index 277
vi Applied evolutionary economics and complex systems