Publications Ulrich Witt
Recent Books
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Recent Developments In Evolutionary Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2008. ISBN 1-84376-015-0
Evolutionary economics is a vital, expanding field of research focusing on the incessant transformation of the economy and its driving forces. Exploring the most recent research trends in the field, this volume presents a high quality set of papers indispensable to scholars and researchers interested in the evolutionary approach.
Highlighting a variety of pressing economic problems, explaining causes and arriving at innovative remedies, the broad coverage considers developments in: innovations, knowledge transfer, industrial dynamics, structural change, international competitiveness, evolutionary game theory, new applications of evolutionary thought in finance, economic geography and ecological economics.
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The Evolving Economy -- Essays on the Evolutionary Approach to Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2003. ISBN 184064 7485
Reprinted in Paperback Edition 2006 ISBN 1-84542-832-3
The Evolving Economy covers a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the biological foundations of economic behavior to the coevolution of firms, markets, and institutions. Ulrich Witt's individualistic approach synthesizes elements familiar from the writings of Veblen and Schumpeter on economic evolution. A conceptual debate on what the notion of evolution means in the economic context is as much emphasized as is the discussion of concrete hypotheses explaining why and how evolutionary economic change comes about.
Offering an outline of an alternative paradigm focusing on endogenous economic change, this book will be of great interest to economists and economic historians. Sociologists, philosophers and anthropologists will also find this work invaluable as it presents an encompassing assessment of the role of Darwinian thought for understanding human behavior and societal evolution.
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