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The political economy of Thorstein Veblen and John Kenneth Galbraith
Kahn, Jonathan - 1974
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Institutional and evolutionary economics in Germany
Pascha, Werner - 1994
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The homo economicus under experimental attack
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2020
For non-economists, it is often difficult to understand why economists place so much emphasis on the self-interest motive. It is obvious that people act out of a variety of motives - gratitude, anger, social obligation and many, many other motives. There are several reasons why economists still...
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CasP's "differential accumulation" versus Veblen's "differential advantage" (revised and expanded)
Bikler, Šimšōn; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2019
This paper clarifies a common misrepresentation of our theory of capital as power, or CasP. Many observers tend to box … CasP as an "institutionalist" theory, tracing its central process of "differential accumulation" to Thorstein Veblen … not Veblenians and certainly not institutionalists: Veblen's theory was evolutionary, while CasP is deeply dialectical …
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The application of evolutionary concepts in evolutionary economics
Cordes, Christian - 2014
There are several ways to incorporate evolutionary concepts into economic thinking. This article reviews the most important transfers of this kind into evolutionary economics. It broadly differentiates between approaches that draw on an analogy construction to the biological sphere, those that...
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Alfred Marshall, evolutionary economics and climate change
Dow, Sheila C. - 2020
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Aestheticism in the theory of custom
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021
learning. The paper presents, thus, an evolutionary underpinning for the behavioral tendencies underlying my theory of custom. …
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Patterned variation: the role of psychological dispositions in social and institutional evolution
Schlicht, Ekkehart - 2021
The new institutional economics has one of its roots in evolutionary thinking. The idea is that there is competition among organizational forms. Some forms spread faster than others and thereby displace and eventually destroy the less well adapted forms. In the end, the most 'efficient'...
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