The Evolution of Economic Diversityunravels the remarkable two-way traffic between economics and biology that has characterised the history of the two disciplines.
List of contributors
vii
Introduction: the co-evolution of economics and biology and the evolution of diversity
1
(18)
Antonio Nicita
Ugo Pagano
PART I Natural selection and the social sciences
19
(64)
The origin of organizational species
21
(27)
Ugo Pagano
Biological and cultural evolution: aspects of dynamics, statistics, and optimization
48
(18)
Marcus W. Feldman
The evolution of evaluators
66
(17)
Daniel C. Dennett
PART II The multiplicity of learning paths
83
(114)
Path-dependent learning, and the evolution of beliefs and behaviors: implications of Bayesian adaptation under computationally bounded rationality
85
(48)
Paul A. David
Learning dynamics, lock-in, and equilibrium selection in experimental coordination games
133
(31)
Vincent Crawford
On the dynamics of cognition and actions: an assessment of some models of learning and evolution
164
(33)
Giovanni Dosi
Giorgio Fagiolo
Luigi Marengo
PART III Technical change in organizations and economic growth
197
(74)
Evolutionary theories of economic change
199
(17)
Richard R. Nelson
Variety and irreversibility in scientific and technological systems: the evolution of an industry network
216
(24)
Fabio Pammolli
Luigi Orsenigo
Massimo Riccaboni
The firm as an evolutionary enforcement device
240
(31)
Antonio Nicita
PART IV The evolution of norms
271
(161)
Equilibrium selection and the evolution of norms
273
(27)
Robert Boyd
Endogenous interactions
300
(25)
George J. Mailath
Larry Samuelson
Avner Shaked
Social networks and efficient evolutionary outcomes in recurrent common interest games
325
(19)
Stefano Vannucci
Community governance: an evolutionary analysis
344
(24)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Cooperation and exclusion in networks
368
(28)
Samuel Bowles
Herbert Gintis
Evolution of money
396
(36)
Katsuhito Iwai
Index
432
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