The Evolution of Economic Diversity (Hardcover)

Contents:
1. Introduction: the co-evolution of economics and biology and the evolution of diversity Antonio Nicita and Ugo Pagano
A. Natural Selection and Social Sciences
2. The origin of organizational species Ugo Pagano
3. Biological and cultural evolution: aspects of dynamics, statistics and optimization Marcus Fieldman
4. The evolution of evaluators Daniel C Dennet
B. The Multiplicity of Learning Paths
5. Path dependent learning, and the evolution of beliefs and behaviours Paul A David
6. Learning dynamics, Lock-in, and equilibrium selection in experimental co-ordination games Vincent Crawford
7. On the dynamics of cognition and actions. An assessment of some models of learning and evolution Giovanni Dosi, G Fagiolo and L. Marengo
C. Technical Change in Learning Paths
8. Evolutionary theories of economic change Richard R Nelson
9. Diversity and irreversibility in scientific and technological systems: the evolution of an industry network F. Pammollo, A Bonaccorsi, L Orsenigo, M Riccabomi and G Turchetti
10. The firm as an evolutionary enforcement device Antonio Nicita
D. The Evolution of Norms
11. Lecture notes on equilibrium selection and the evolution of norms Robert Boyd
12. Endogenous interactions G. Mailath, L. Samuleson and A. Shaked
13. Social networks and efficient evolutionary outcomes in recurrent common interest games Stefano Vannucci
14. Community governance: An evolutionary analysis Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
15. Cooperation and exclusion in networks Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis
16. Evolution of money Katsuhito Iwai