Metcalfe, J. Stanley - In: History of Economic Ideas 18 (2010) 2, pp. 45-76
The purpose or this essay is to make the connection between the idea of complexity and the work of four major economists, Smith, Marshall, Schumpeter and Hayek. The bridge is provided by innovation, in the form of emergent novelties, and the division of labour in the form of a system of parts...