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Learning, institutions, and economic performance
Mantzabinos, Chrysostomos; North, Douglass Cecil; … - 2003
In this article, we provide a broad overview of the interplay among cognition, belief systems, and institutions, and how they affect economic performance. We argue that a deeper understanding of institutions emergence, their working properties, and their effect on economic and political outcomes...
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Institutions are neither autistic maximizers nor flocks of birds : self-organization, power, and learning in human organizations
Dosi, Giovanni; Marengo, Luigi; Nuvolari, Alessandro - 2016
In this work we shall attempt an excursus across fundamentally different streams of modern interpretations of the "primitive entities" constituting the social fabrics of economic systems. Behind each specific interpretative story, there is a set of ceteris paribus assumptions and also some...
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Selbstorganisation : ein fruchtbares Konzept für die evolutorische Ökonomik
Weise, Peter - 2003
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Modern Society - a Complex, Evolutionary, Self-Organising, Antagonistic System
Fuchs, Christian - 2003
The aim of this paper is to outline some foundational aspects of a theory of self-organising social change. Synchronous …-reproduction. Aspects of Marxist crisis theory can be incorporated consistently into the framework of a theory of social self … dialectic relationship of chance and necessity. Regulation theory sees the development of system shaped by a dialectic of chance …
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Institutional obsolescence : why do institutions persist though evolutionary selection pressure changes radically?
Negru, Ioana; Dolfsma, Wilfred - In: Journal of economic issues 56 (2022) 3, pp. 699-706
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Institutional change and economic evolution in regions
Grillitsch, Markus - 2014
The overall objective of this paper is to contribute conceptually to the questions why and how regions transform and it joins the debate on economic evolution and institutional change. The paper addresses the challenge of how to conceptualise the interdependencies of institutions of different...
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Can path dependence explain institutional change? : Two approaches applied to welfare state reform
Ebbinghaus, Bernhard (contributor) - 2005
Path dependence as a concept in institutional theories has become increasingly popular in economics and other social sciences. The key idea is that in a sequence of events, the latter events are not (completely) independent from those that occurred in the past. Yet, common usage of the concept...
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Conflict, evolution, hegemony, and the power of the State
Levine, David K.; Modica, Salvatore - 2013
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Does classical liberalism imply an evolutionary approach to policy-making?
Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
This paper argues that an evolutionary approach to policy-making, which emphasizes openness to change and political variety, is particularly compatible with the central tenets of classical liberalism. The chief reasons are that classical liberalism acknowledges the ubiquity of uncertainty, as...
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Rivalry, Polycentricism, and Institutional Evolution
Boettke, Peter J. - 2016
We argue that the future of Austrian political economy rests on the study of how institutional entrepreneurs discover and implement alternative institutional arrangements conducive to economic growth. This requires a dual level of analysis in spontaneous order studies. How such institutional...
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