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Ulrich Witt 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2008,18(5):547-575
Ever since an “evolutionary” perspective on the economy has been suggested, there have been differing, and partly incommensurable,
views on what specifically this means. By working out where the differences lie and what motivates them, this paper identifies
four major approaches to evolutionary economics. The differences between them can be traced back to opposite positions regarding
the basic assumptions about reality and the proper conceptualization of evolution. The same differences can also be found
in evolutionary game theory. Achievements of the major approaches to evolutionary economics and their prospects for future
research are assessed by means of a peer survey.
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The Social Economics of Globalization 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
John P. Tiemstra 《Forum for Social Economics》2007,36(2):143-159
There is general agreement on the moral values that globalization should serve. These are widespread prosperity and economic
growth, ecological sustainability, and cultural diversity. Proponents believe that neoliberal globalization will achieve these
goals, while the critics believe that globalization undermines them. An institutionalist theory that recognizes the reality
of economic power and choice posits that globalization enhances the power of the business sector at the expense of the government
and moral–cultural sectors. Policies for redressing this imbalance are discussed.
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John P. TiemstraEmail: |
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Neil Rankin 《Portuguese Economic Journal》2007,6(3):133-150
We show that when a model of the macroeconomy is based on imperfect, rather than perfect, competition, this may increase the
problem of how to model agents’ expectations. We provide a simple example using an overlapping-generations economy with the
potential for unemployment. Under certain assumptions about how consumers migrate between locations between the first and
second periods of their lives, this extra issue regarding expectations arises. Imperfect competition may increase agents’
forecasting difficulties because they have to forecast not only future equilibrium prices, but also future out-of-equilibrium
prices, and by definition the latter are never actually observed.
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Neil RankinEmail: |
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Austrian themes,data, and sports economics 总被引:1,自引:1,他引:0
Stephen Shmanske 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2007,20(1):11-24
This paper uses data from Major League Baseball and themes from Moneyball by Michael Lewis to empirically illustrate Kirznerian entrepreneurship. While Kirzner envisioned competition in markets for
profit, the sports economics literature shows that sporting competition has things in common with market competition. This
is important because a strength of sports economics, namely, the abundant data, can help overcome a perceived weakness of
Austrian economics, namely, the lack of empirical content. This paper describes and empirically confirms how certain front
office decision makers of the Oakland Athletics were alert to opportunities that were being overlooked by other baseball executives.
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Geoffrey Brennan 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2009,22(2):131-143
This paper is an assessment of Besley’s attempt to orchestrate a rapprochement between public choice theory and conventional
public economics—with its characteristic normative orientation towards public policy. In this paper, I first try to set the
Besley enterprise in the context of earlier work—focussing on my own work with Buchanan (The Power to Tax and The Reason of Rules). I then direct attention to three aspects of the Besley enterprise: whether selecting for competence depends on having solved the motivation problem (either by incentive or selection means), how selection mechanisms might be supported institutionally and the possibility
that selection processes might create incentives at the ‘dispositional’ level.
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Geoffrey BrennanEmail: |
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Robert Kemp 《Forum for Social Economics》2007,36(1):43-51
This paper puts the theory of medical dominance, as it understood as a sociological theory of historical change, into a broader
theory of institutional change of the delivery of medical care. The application of medical dominance theory to three institutional
contexts (Australia, USA, and Canada) is reviewed. The possibility of progressive institutional change in the delivery of
medical care is addressed, as well as the type of technological innovation that might accompany such institutional change.
The concept of medical dominance is useful to explain the dominant characteristics supporting the institution of medical practice.
However, an explanatory theory of the evolution of health care delivery should be linked to the instrumentally warranted standards
for medical care. These standards are then discussed.
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Robert KempEmail: |
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Derek K. Yonai 《Constitutional Political Economy》2007,18(3):161-176
The social norm literature in law and economics fails to account for the differences between the two major conceptions of
property rights. The differences between the two conceptions affect people’s utility function by affecting how increases in
property rights are perceived. This paper discusses how the modern, in rem, conception evolved from an older, in personam, conception; it also discusses how economics has absorbed the modern, in rem, conception. The paper demonstrates that if people do not perceive the benefits of modern property rights, they will follow
their social norms if the government or planner imposes modern property rights on them. In the end, this allows one to make
a fuller discussion of why norms economize information. This discussion has various consequences ranging from developmental
economics to financial market economics and cannot be ignored.
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Derek K. YonaiEmail: |
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The recent period of intensive and extensive development of global economic integration, or globalization, has reached a crossroads.
The regime of the neoliberal Great Capitalist Restoration is not sustainable and fundamental governance changes must be made.
This paper adds perspective to the choices that must be made at this critical juncture of the global social economy by applying
the master concepts of Schumpeter’s Creative Destruction and Polanyi’s Protective Response.
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James Ronald StanfieldEmail: |
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This study examines the impact of a stamp tax rate increase on market behavior, using data from two stock exchanges in China. We find that when the tax rate increases from 0.3 to 0.5% (which implies that the transaction cost increases by about 1/3) trading volume decreases by 1/3. This implies an elasticity of turnover with respect to a stamp tax of −50% and an elasticity of turnover with respect to transaction cost of −100%. The markets’ volatility significantly increases after the increase in the tax rate. Furthermore, the change in the volatility structure indicates that the markets become less efficient in the sense that shocks are less quickly assimilated in the markets.
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Badi H. Baltagi (Corresponding author)Email: |
Dong LiEmail: |
Qi LiEmail: |
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Domenico D’Amico 《Constitutional Political Economy》2007,18(4):301-318
Buchanan’s reflections on monetary issues have been mostly neglected, despite their great interest both per se and for a deeper
understanding of his general constitutional endeavour. We will thus propose a comprehensive assessment of Buchanan’s writings
on this topic, focusing in particular on the different political models that have been developed to argue in favour of constitutional
constraints on the governmental power to create money and on the implications that one can draw from our author’s monetary
papers for the structure and the objectives of his constitutional discourse more generally.
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Domenico D’AmicoEmail: |
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Put me in,Coach, I’m ready to play 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Christopher J. Coyne Justin P. Isaacs Jeremy T. Schwartz Anthony M. Carilli 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2007,20(4):237-246
This paper explores the connection between discrimination and entrepreneurship. To pursue this inquiry we focus on the integration
of black players in Major League Baseball (MLB). MLB team owners, acting as entrepreneurs, had to weigh the benefits of integrating
versus the costs of alienating consumers who had a taste for discrimination against hiring blacks. We find that the owners
whose teams could profit by contending for the league pennant with the addition of black players were the ones who were willing
to take the risk of integrating, although integration often stood in contrast to revealed consumer preferences. In addition
to illuminating the mechanism through which integration took place, we offer a general understanding of how the costs and
benefits associated with consumers’ taste for discrimination can change via entrepreneurial activities.
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Anthony M. CarilliEmail: |
12.
Mikael Sandberg 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2007,17(1):1-23
Fundamental correspondence and analogies between the evolution of technological and biological innovations call for an ‘innovation
Darwinian’, ‘universal Darwinian’ or ‘memetic’ approach to understanding technology innovation. Neo-institutional, in fact
pseudo-Lamarckian evolutionary economic theory, represented by North, Nelson and Winter, Freeman and others, is criticized.
Pseudo-Lamarckian (“by volition”) evolution is explained and analyzed on Darwinian grounds (as intentional and artificial
selection), as is Schumpeter’s definitions of creative and imitative innovation. Data from a web survey among Swedish public
and private organizations in 1999 are studied. Data show that Darwinian co-evolutionary interaction between producers and
users or clients provide essential conditions and stronger influence on creative IT innovations than both ‘Lamarckian’ strategies
and competition.
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Mikael SandbergEmail: |
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Darwinism in economics: from analogy to continuity 总被引:2,自引:3,他引:2
Christian Cordes 《Journal of Evolutionary Economics》2006,16(5):529-541
Currently there is an ongoing discussion about how Darwinian concepts should be harnessed to further develop economic theory. Two approaches to this question, Universal Darwinism and the continuity hypothesis, are presented in this paper. It is shown whether abstract principles can be derived from Darwin’s explanatory model of biological evolution that can be applied to cultural evolution. Furthermore, the relation of the ontological basis of biological and cultural evolution is clarified. Some examples illustrate the respective potential of the two approaches to serve as a starting-point for theory development.
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Christian CordesEmail: |
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Gregor Zwirn 《The Review of Austrian Economics》2009,22(1):81-107
This paper focuses on Ludwig von Mises’s attempt to establish an epistemological/methodological foundation for the social
sciences (praxeology). I reconstruct Mises’s writings by disentangling the distinct realms of ontology and epistemology in
his arguments. Although Mises’s line of reasoning is squarely based on the distinction between ontology and epistemology,
he nonetheless tends to mix ontological and epistemological viewpoints in his argumentation, thereby clouding the issue involved.
I believe this is one reason why the writings of Mises appear to be so difficult and engendered different as well as competing
readings amongst Austrian economists. Furthermore, this analysis also allows us to assess whether or not Mises offers a sound
theory of knowledge. I conclude that praxeology displays internal tensions and explain the reasons for these tensions.
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Gregor ZwirnEmail: |
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The paper studies the dynamics of firm size in a repeated Cournot game with unknown demand function. We model the firm as
a type of artificial neural network. Each period it must learn to map environmental signals to both a demand parameter and
its rival’s output choice. However, this learning game is in the background, as we focus on the endogenous adjustment of network
size. We investigate the long-run evolution of firm/network size as a function of profits, rival’s size, and the type of adjustment
rules used.
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Jason BarrEmail: |
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Corporate social responsibility and the ‘game of catallaxy’: the perspective of constitutional economics 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Viktor J. Vanberg 《Constitutional Political Economy》2007,18(3):199-222
The paper examines the issue of corporate social responsibility (CSR) from the perspective of constitutional economics, focusing
on the distinction between a political community’s constitutional choice of the rules of the “market game,” and the market
players’ sub-constitutional choice of strategies within these rules. Three versions of CSR-demands are identified and discussed,
a “soft,” a “hard”, and a “radical” version. The soft version is concerned with the issue of how “socially responsible” corporations ought to play the market game within existing
rules. The hard version is about how the rules of the market ought to be changed in order to induce “socially responsible” corporate behavior.
And the radical version questions the compatibility of CSR and the logic of the market game, calling in effect for adopting some alternative
economic regime.
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Viktor J. VanbergEmail: |
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In constitutional political economy, the citizens’ constitutional interests determine the social contract that is binding
for the post-constitutional market game. However, following traditional preference subjectivism, it is left open what the
constitutional interests are. Using the example of risk attitudes, we argue that this approach is too parsimonious with regard
to the behavioral foundations to support a calculus of consent. In face of innovative activities with pecuniary and technological
externalities in the post-constitutional phase, the citizens’ constitutional interests vary with their risk preferences. To
determine what kind of social contract is generally agreeable, specific assumptions about risk preferences are needed.
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Ulrich WittEmail: |
18.
David Hauner 《International Advances in Economic Research》2007,13(3):347-364
Projections of age-related public expenditure growth have raised widespread concerns about fiscal sustainability. This paper
examines how total expenditure would develop under four policy rules on public expenditure growth. Some simple arithmetic
of expenditure, GDP, and population is reviewed and applied in simulations for 19 OECD countries over 2000–50. A general and
a specific conclusion arise from the results. Generally, long-term expenditure projections could benefit from revisiting common
assumptions on non-age-related expenditure growth. Specifically, realistic gradual adjustment in non-age-related expenditures
could go a long way towards maintaining fiscal sustainability under age-related spending pressures.
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David HaunerEmail: |
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Jason Brennan 《Constitutional Political Economy》2007,18(4):287-299
Rawls’ theory of justice is paradoxical, for it requires a society to aim directly to maximize the basic goods received by
the least advantaged even if directly aiming is self-defeating. Rawls’ reasons for rejecting capitalist systems commit him
to holding that a society must not merely maximize the goods received by the least advantaged, but must do so via specific
institutions. By Rawls’ own premises, in the long run directly aiming to satisfy the difference principle is contrary to the
interests of the poor, though it is meant to aid them.
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Jason BrennanEmail: |
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Charles B. Blankart 《Constitutional Political Economy》2007,18(2):99-106
The European Union of today is neither a confederation nor a federation, but rather an association of compound states. It
is shown that this mixture of two forms of constitutional contracts implies inconsistencies prone to political deadlocks.
A Buchanan/Tullock/Rawls approach to a reform suggests a clear choice between either a confederation or a federation. In this
paper, however, it is proposed to follow a Hayekian approach in which issue fields are allocated to a confederation or to
a federation, respectively depending on the revealed homogeneity of preferences of the citizens across the Member States.
Hence both, Council and European Parliament, would remain the central decision makers but with separate tasks. Suggestions
are made how to improve their election and their decision rules. The paper should contribute to the debate on reforming the
European institutions which emerged after the rejection of the constitutional draft by the French and Dutch voters in 2005.
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Charles B. BlankartEmail: |