Economic evolution : an enquiry into the foundations of new institutional economics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vromen, Jack J
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1995
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Selection arguments pro and contra the neoclassical theory of the firm
  • Breaking open the black box
  • The new theory of the firm
  • Modelling the selection argument: Nelson and Winter's evolutionary theory
  • Functional explanation
  • Two evolutionary mechanisms
  • Altruism and units of selection
  • The cultural evolution of behavioural dispositions
  • A realist reconstruction of economic evolutionary theory
  • Notes.