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Collective and individual rationality: Robert Malthus’s heterodox theodicy

Denis, Andy - EconWPA - 2003

This paper forms part of a research project investigating conceptions of the relationship between micro-level self-seeking agent behaviour and the desirability or otherwise of the resulting macro-level social outcomes in the history of economics. I identify two kinds of conservative rhetorical...

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An e-Business Model Ontology for Modeling e-Business

Osterwalder, Alexander; Pigneur, Yves - EconWPA - 2002

-business models, we introduce a new e-Business Model Ontology. Using the concept of business models can help companies understand … generic e-Business Model Ontology (a rigorous definition of the e-business issues and their interdependencies in a company …-business management and IS Requirements Engineering. The e-Business Model Ontology is based on an extensive literature review and …

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Teaching Agent-Based Computational Economics to Graduate Students

Tesfatsion, Leigh - EconWPA - 1998

Agent-based computational economics (ACE) is the computational study of economies modelled as evolving decentralized systems of autonomous interacting agents. A key focus of ACE research is understanding how global regularities arise from the bottom up, through the repeated local interactions of...

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Teoria dos custos de transacao e abordagens evolucionistas: analise e perspectivas de um programa de pesquisa pluralista

Huascar, Pessali; Ramon, Fernandez - EconWPA - 2005

Transaction Costs Theory has been considered the 'new orthodoxy' in the theory of the firm, being this the very same reason for wide criticism by different schools of economic thought. However, there seems to be signs of complementarity between TCT and evolutionary approaches to the firm. Some...

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Meta-Rules

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Meta-rules, or rules for making rules, determine the costs of innovation and thus the pace of economic growth. Adapting rules to a changing economic environment through explicit, well-designed meta-rules makes economic growth quicker, less painful, and more certain than adapting rules through...

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Evolutionary models’ comparative analysis. Methodology proposition based on selected neo-schumpeterian models of industrial dynamics

Kwasnicki, Witold - EconWPA - 2002

A methodology of comparative analysis of evolutionary models is proposed. The main aim of this proposition is to identify to what extend different models can be called ‘evolutionary ones’. Each model is analysed by searching for answers to following questions:  Is the model dynamical one?...

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An Interview with Franco Modigliani

Barnett, William A.; Solow, Robert - EconWPA - 2004

These are the page proofs of the interview of Franco Modigliani by William A. Barnett and Robert Solow. The interview was published in the journal, Macroeconomic Dynamics, in 2000. Since William Barnett is one of the two interviewers, he now is permitted, by Cambridge University Press, to make...

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Inside the Economist's Mind: The History of Modern Economic Thought, as Explained by Those Who Produced It

Barnett, William A.; Samuelson, Paul A.; Weintraub, E. Roy - EconWPA - 2005

This is the front matter from a book of interviews to be published by Blackwell. The book is coedited by W. A. Barnett and P. A. Samuelson. The front matter includes the Table of Contents, Coeditor Preface by W. A. Barnett, Coeditor Foreword by Paul A. Samuelson, and History of Thought...

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Dreamland

Booncharoenpol, Boonserm - EconWPA - 2005

Dreamland is an economic idea for ideal society like Utopia of Moore but it is more applicable to the real world. A man, Boon, had visited a wonderful land and told us what he met in the ideal country. For example: no liquor, limitation of personal wealth, education without degree. If any...

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Review of Bruce Caldwell (2004) 'Hayek’s Challenge: an Intellectual Biography of F. A. Hayek'

Denis, Andy - EconWPA - 2004

Bruce Caldwell (2004) “Hayek’s Challenge” tells the story of the evolution of Hayek’s methodological standpoint. In Caldwell’s account, Hayek is driven by the desire to identify a truly scientific approach to the study of society as a complex adaptive order which at the same time will...

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