Contributors

Preface

Modern evolutionary economic perspectives: an overview

John Foster

J. Stanley Metcalfe

PART I THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES

The coevolution of technology and institutions as the driver of economic growth

Richard R. Nelson

Commentary: institutions, macroevolution and economic selection

John M. Gowdy

From evolution to language and learning

Bart Nooteboom

Commentary: from evolution to language and learning

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 enquiry 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: history-friendly theories in economics --- reconciling universality and context in evolutionary analysis

Jason Potts

PART II EMPIRICAL PERSPECTIVES

Considerations about a production system with qualitative change

Paolo Saviotti

Heterogeneity and evolutionary change: empirical conception, findings and unresolved issues

Uwe Cantner

Horst Hanusch

Commentary: heterogeneity and evolutionary change --- empirical conception, findings and unresolved issues

John Nightingale

Measuring complexity: puzzles and tentative solutions

Francisco Louca

Commentary

Steve Keen

Knowledge, ignorance and the evolution of complex systems

Peter M. Allen

Commentary: knowledge, ignorance and the evolution of complex systems

Kevin Bryant

Promoting innovation: an overview of the application of evolutionary economics and systems approaches to policy issues

Kevin Bryant

Index