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Evolutionary economics is a relatively new economic methodology that is modeled on biology. It stresses complex interdependencies, competition, growth, and resource constraints.
As Philip Mirowski has demonstrated in his book 'More Heat than Light', the first 200 years of economic theory was modeled primarily on physics — economic terminology like "labour force", "equilibrium", "elasticity", and "velocity of money", are no accident. The principles of this construction, inspired by Newtonian mechanics, implied that the world is guided by elegant deterministic laws, based on few principles such as the principle of least action.
Conventional economic reasoning begins with the definition of scarcity, then assumes the existence of a "rational agent" bent solely on the attainment of one goal — the maximization of her/his welfare as defined by that agent. All relevant information is assumed to be held in common ("perfect information"), and the scheme of valuation ("preferences" or "tastes") used by the decision-maker is also assumed to be constant and native to the agent ("nonenvy" or "independent preferences"). Given the foregoing stipulations, the determination of the "rational choice" for any agent becomes a straightforward exercise in the differential calculus.
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Winter Conference - Organized by DRIUD, Aalborg, Denmark, June 12-15, 2001, deadline for submission of papers: February 15, 2001.
Association For Evolutionary Economics - The Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) is an international organization of economists and other social scientists devoted to analysis of economics as evolving, socially constructed and politically governed systems.
DRUID - Danish Research Unit of Industrial Dynamics.
European Meeting on Applied Evolutionary Economics - Held on the 7 - 9 June 1999, in Grenoble, France.
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Institute of energy policy and economics ,centre de recherche en économie de l'énergie ]
Evolutionary Economics - Page with notes by Santa Fee Institute.
Evolutionary Economics - Economic growth, wealth creation, technological innovation, scientific and industrial revolution, democracy, capitalism, market reforms.
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IIASA - Science for Global Insight - The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is a non-governmental research organization located in Austria which does research on economic dynamics (among others).
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Max Planck Institute of Economics - Institute by the German Max-Planck Society, Research on Evolutionary Economics, Experimental Economics Theory, Entrepreneurship, Growth and Public Policies.
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Nep-Evo Discussion List - This list is part of NEP (New Economics Papers), Evolutionary Economics, (a discussion list on Evolutionary Economics).
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The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy -
Why is Economics Not an Evolutionary Science - By Thorstein Veblen, The Quarterly Journal of Economics; Volume 12, 1898.
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ZiF Bielefeld/Germany - The Sciences of Complexity: From Mathematics to Technology to a Sustainable World -- The International Collaborative Research Year at ZiF. Group 7: Evolutionary Economics, G. Hanappi (Institute for Economics, Technical University, Vienna).
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