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Ottosson, Jan (contributor); Magnusson, Lars (contributor) - 2009

The notion and interpretation of path dependence have been discussed and utilized in various social sciences during the last two decades. This innovative book provides significant new insights onto how the different applications of path dependence have developed and evolved. The authors suggest...

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The evolution of scientific knowledge

Jensen, Hans Siggaard (ed.); Richter, Lykke Margot (ed.); … - 2003

The Evolution of Scientific Knowledge aims to reach a unique understanding of science with the help of economic and sociological theories. The economic theories used are institutionalist and evolutionary. The sociological theories draw from the type of work on social studies of science that...

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Rethinking public choice

Wagner, Richard E. - 2022

"Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as well as its evolution in recent years attracting contributions from political science and...

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Rethinking economics as social theory

Wagner, Richard E. - 2022

materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new … insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the … and the important social questions. Rethinking Economics as Social Theory moves away from the traditional review of …

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The evolutionary analysis of economic policy

Pelikán, Pavel (ed.); Wegner, Gerhard (ed.) - 2003

theory of economic policy which will plug the gaps and rectify the errors (such as approval of socialist planning and …

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Economic institutions and complexity : structures, interactions, and emergent properties

Schenk, Karl-Ernst - 2003

This book presents a concept of interactive economic institutions and systems, considered by the author to be a bottleneck to scientific progress. In the author's evaluation of contemporary institutional economics, the focus is on the interaction of complex economic structures in terms of their...

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