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The evolving economy : essays on the evolutionary approach to economics

Witt, Ulrich - 2003

Change manifests itself in all facets of the economy. This important collection of previously published essays illustrates how the evolutionary approach can reveal not only where change comes from, and how it happens, but also where it will lead. The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of...

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The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

Pelikán, Pavel (ed.); Wegner, Gerhard (ed.) - 2003

This important book analyses evolutionary approaches to economic policy. Its main purpose is to explore the policy implications of evolutionary economics, in particular of approaches inspired on the one hand by Schumpeter and revived by Nelson and Winter which deal with industrial evolution...

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Economic institutions and complexity : structures, interactions, and emergent properties

Schenk, Karl-Ernst - 2003

This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their...

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Corporate technological competence and the evolution of technological diversification

Fai, Felicia M. - 2003

Drawing upon evolutionary economics and resource-based approaches, the author utilises US patent data from 1930-1990 to examine the persistence of corporate technological competencies and their gradual erosion through diversifying incremental change. The book explores the changing nature of this...

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The economics of the mind

Rizzello, Salvatore - 1999

The Economics of the Mind addresses economics from the perspective of real men and women: how they assess things, decide and act. It looks at the choices we make, and calls for the assumptions which make up the foundations of economic theory to be consistent with the mechanisms which guide the...

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Assessing the Environmental Effects of Trade Liberalisation Agreements : Methodologies

2000

How can the environmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements be assessed ? Are available methodologies sufficiently tuned to current concerns? In order to take stock of the state of the art in assessment methodologies, the OECD organised a two-day technical workshop to focus on past...

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Foreign Direct Investment and the Environment

1999

Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the driving forces binding countries into closer economic interdependence … impacts on environmental quality in the investment host country. A broader issue is the role of FDI in promoting sustainable … practices in this area are highlighted. The papers were presented at the OECD Conference on Foreign Direct Investment and the …

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The Polluter Pays Principle

2008

As the Polluter-Pays Principle is a fundamental principle of cost allocation, its analysis covers a substantial part of the vast field of environmental resource allocation. This report, originally published in 1975, presents a selection of relevant theoretical and practical analyses now that the...

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