Beschreibung:
Presents the evolutionary perspective of the economy as perpetually moving, driven by innovation, and the empirical research this has guided.
1. Economics from an evolutionary perspective Richard Nelson; 2. Technological advance as an evolutionary process Giovanni Dosi and Richard Nelson; 3. The behavior and capability of firms Constance Helfat; 4. Schumpeterian competition and industrial dynamics Andreas Pyka and Richard Nelson; 5. Evolutionary perspectives on long run economic development Andreas Pyka, Pier Paolo Saviotti and Richard Nelson; 6. Economic catch-up by latecomers as an evolutionary process Keun Lee and Franco Malerba; 7. The evolution of evolutionary economics Kurt Dopfer and Richard Nelson.