In this work we discuss the main building blocks, achievements and challenges of an evolutionary interpretation of the relation between mechanisms of coordination and drivers of change in modern economies, seen as complex evolving systems. It is an evident stylised fact of modern economic...

In this small paper author makes some comments on the relation between Income Distribution and the Government Debt as a percentage of GDP. It is estimated through a panel data model that optimum Income Distribution takes place at a critical level of Government Debt as a percentage of GDP....

The purpose of the System Dynamics method is to study the relationship between structure and behavior in non-linear, dynamic systems. In such systems, the significance of various structural components to the behavior pattern exhibited, changes as the behavior unfolds. Changes in structural...

This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...

This paper proposes that the global financial and economic crisis has a single cause underlying all other causes. The single cause is attributed to the economic paradigm which drives individual behaviour, business, government and education. We define the economic paradigm and explain its power...

The paper considers the division of a production system into departments I and II. It introduces a further division of department I into a homothetic and a complementary sector. It shows the existence of non-trivial upper and lower bounds for the capital stock and the wages that depend on this...

This paper develops the building blocks for a legal theory of finance. LTF holds that financial markets are legally constructed and as such occupy an essentially hybrid place between state and market, public and private. At the same time, financial markets exhibit dynamics that frequently put...

NWW Concept (North & all, 2009) determines the necessary threshold conditions for the transition from Limited Access Orders (LAO) to Open Access Orders (OAO). In this article, I offer a sufficient criterion for such a transition. What are the conditions under which a rent-seeking behavior...

Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) is founded on the theory of expected rationality but the theory of behavioural finance concludes that stock market investors are quasi-rational. Therefore, under the capitalistic system, the efficient markets have already failed to protect the rights of...

In terms of economic methodology, Friedman's most well-known contribution is his 1953 essay, “The Methodology of Positive Economics.” This important contribution has overshadowed his earlier contribution to economic methodology, entitled “Lerner on the Economics of Control” (1947)....