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7. Development as an Evolutionary Economic Process

verfasst von : Richard R. Nelson

Erschienen in: The Palgrave Handbook of Development Economics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter describes how economic development is viewed from the perspective of modern evolutionary economics. It lays out the basic conceptual view of economic activity and economic change provided by evolutionary economic theory, the central role played by technologies and their evolution in economic dynamics, and the key role of institutions in forging the evolutionary processes at work. At the same time, institutions themselves evolve. A central argument is that an adequate economic framework for analyzing long run economic change must recognize the rich set of institutions involved—not just firms, households, and markets, but also a wide range of private not-for profit and public organizations and structures—and also that the varied roles of government cannot be understood simply as responses to “market failure”. The proposition is developed that the key driving forces involved in development are the co-evolution of technologies and institutions.

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Fußnoten
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I will not discuss here the differences in the styles of formal modeling in the two theories, save to note that formal modeling in evolutionary theory tends to take the form of dynamic systems that at any moment may be far from an equilibrium, while formal neoclassical models almost always assume that an equilibrium obtains. My focus here is not on formal modeling, but on what Sidney Winter and I (1982) have called “appreciative theory”, that is theory that aims to capture the basics of what actually is going on.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Development as an Evolutionary Economic Process
verfasst von
Richard R. Nelson
Copyright-Jahr
2019
Verlag
Springer International Publishing
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14000-7_7