The rise of the institutionalist and evolutionary approaches in economics has posed a serious intellectual challenge to the dominant neo-classical paradigm. This book draws together leading scholars in the fields of institutional and evolutionary economics who apply cutting-edge research to one...

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of...

1. Introduction -- 2. History of Concepts and Principles -- 3. Contemporary Institutional and Evolutionary Concepts and Principles -- 4. Global Coronavirus Pandemic Crisis -- 5. Climate Change -- 6. Corruption -- 7. Artificial General Intelligence and Autonomous Humanoid Robotics -- 8. Policy...