Introduction -- Evolutionary political economy : theory -- Creative economy as a resource for specific local developments / Ismail Erturk and Pascal Petit -- Creative industries between "living labs" and "robinsonnade" / Philippe Bouquillion and Pierre Mcglin -- Population thinking vs....

Some famous pioneers together with the most promising new practitioners in the field show within this book how they define their subject. This is an authoritative survey of important branches of evolutionary economics, containing innovative new perspectives on market dynamics and evolutionary...

We review theoretical and empirical research on the dynamic interactions between cultures and institutions. We think about culture as a system of values and about institutions as formalized rules of the game. Our presentation is organized around a simple theoretical framework of political...

Do political institutions shape economic policy? I argue that this question should naturally appeal to economists. Moreover, the answer is in the affirmative, both in theory and in practice. In particular, recent theoretical work predicts systematic eects of electoral rules and political regimes...