School assignment in Boston and New York City came to national attention in the 1970s as courts across the country tried to integrate schools. Today, district-wide choice allows Boston and New York students to enroll far from home, perhaps enhancing integration. Urban school transportation is...

Moderne Innovationsprozesse sind durch eine zunehmende Komplexität gekennzeichnet, die dafür verantwortlich ist, daß kaum ein Unternehmen mehr allein in der Lage ist, alle relevanten Entwicklungen zu verfolgen, geschweige denn zu beherrschen. Aus diesem Grund wird der Rückgriff auf externe...

An evolutionary model of the bank size distribution is presented based on the exchange and creation of deposit money. In agreement with empirical results the derived size distribution is lognormal with a power law tail. The theory is based on the idea that the size distribution is the result of...

The book illustrates the considerable advances in modern evolutionary economics and addresses core questions of economic behaviour, interaction of heterogeneous actors in uncertain environments and the possibility of aggregating observations on a macro-economic level. It presents the foundations...