Frontiers in Evolutionary Economics

The diffusion of an evolutionary approach in economics during the past roughly 40 years has been steady and persuasive. This special issue is taking stock of some recent developments especially in the fields of analysis of institutions, economic geography, consumption and the demand side, which are still somewhat exploratory and pioneering. Four broad groups of papers are presented, addressing "Creativity, and knowledge accumulation", "Firms, consumers and structural change", "Welfare and evolving preferences" and "The macro and institutional levels".

InhaltsangabeInhalt/Contents Guest Editorial Abhandlungen / Original Papers Cohendet, Patrick, Patrick Llerena, Laurent Simon, The Routinization of Creativity. Lessons from the Case of a Video-game Creative Powerhouse Loasby, Brian J., The Evolution of Knowledge and Knowledge of Evolution Buenstorf, Guido, Matthias Geissler, Like Doktorvater, like Son? Tracing Role Model Learning in the Evolution of German Laser Research Nooteboom, Bart, In What Sense do Firms Evolve? Murmann, Johann Peter, Jenny Korn, Hagen Worch, How Fast Can Firms Grow? Duschl, Matthias, Antje Schimke, Thomas Brenner, Dennis Luxen, Firm Growth and the Spatial Impact of Geolocated External Factors Amendola, Mario, Jean-Luc Gaffard, Competition and Increasing Returns Garavaglia, Christian, Franco Malerba, Luigi Orsenigo, Michele Pezzoni, Innovation and Market Structure in Pharmaceuticals: An Econometric Analysis on Simulated Data Chai, Andreas, Alessio Moneta, Escaping Satiation Dynamics: Some Evidence from British Household Data Vanberg, Viktor J., Evolving Preferences and Welfare Economics: The Perspective of Constitutional Political Economy Schubert, Christian, Martin Binder, Reconciling Normative and Behavioral Economics: An Application of the "Naturalistic. Approach" to the Adaptation Problem Birchenhall, Chris, Paul Windrum, Global Warming: Technology, Preferences and Policy HerrmannPillath, Carsten, Naturalizing Institutions: Evolutionary Principles and Application on the Case of Money Hanappi, Hardy, Evolutionary Political Economy in Crisis Mode