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Staff of the Max Planck Institute

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Witt

• "Can Darwinism be "Generalized" and of what use would this be? ", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Online First™, 30 June 2011 (togehter with Georgy S. Levit and Uwe Hossfeld). doi:10.1007/s00191-011-0235-3
• "Emergence and functionality of organizational routines: an individualistic approach", Journal of Institutional Economics 2011, 7:2, 157–174. doi:10.1017/S1744137410000226
• "The dynamics of consumer behavior and the transition to sustainable consumption patterns", Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions 1, 2011, 109–114. doi:10.1016/j.eist.2011.03.001
• "Symbolic consumption and the social construction of product characteristics", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 21 (2010) 17–25. doi:10.1016/j.strueco.2009.11.008
• "Novelty and the Bounds of Unknowledge in Economics", Journal of Economic Methodology, 16 (4) December 2009, 361-375.
• "How Firm Organizations Adapt to Secure a Sustained Knowledge Transfer", Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 18 (7), 2009, 647 - 661. (together with Christian Zellner)
• "Propositions about novelty", Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 70, 2009, 311–320. doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2009.01.008
• "Constitutional Interests in the Face of Innovations: How Much Do We Need to Know about Risk Preferences?", Constitutional Political Economy 19, 2008, 203-225. (together with Christian Schubert) doi:10.1007/s10602-008-9044-6
• "What is specific about evolutionary Economics?", Journal of Evolutionary Economics 18(5) 2008, 547-575. doi:10.1007/s00191-008-0107-7
• "Output Dynamics, Flow Equilibria and Structural Change – A Prolegomenon to Evolutionary Macroeconomics", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 18 (2), 2008, 249-260 (together with T. Brenner) Abstract
• "Observational learning, group selection, and societal evolution", Journal of Institutional Economics 4:1 (2008), 1–24. Abstract
• "Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions", Journal of Management Studies, 44 (7), 2007, 1125-1140. Abstract
• "Evolutionary Concepts in Economics and Biology", in: Journal of Evolutionary Economics16, 2006, 473-476.
• "How problems of organizational growth in firms affect industry entry and exit.", Revue de l'Observatoire Francais des Conjonctures Economiques, June 2006, 47-62 (together with G. Buenstorf). Abstract
• "'Production' in Nature and Production in the Economy - Second Thoughts About Some Basic Economic Concepts", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2005, Vol. 16(2), 165-179. Abstract
• "Network-Induced Oscillatory Behavior In Material Flow Networks And Irregular Business Cycles", Physical Review E 70, 2004, 056118, 1-6 (together with D. Helbing, S. Lämmer, T. Brenner). Abstract
• "Arms and the Man: World War I and the Rise of the Welfare State", Kyklos 57, 2004, 475-504 (together with L. Dudley). Abstract
• "On the proper interpretation of 'evolution' in economics and its implications for production theory", Journal of Economic Methodology, 11(2,)2004, 125-146. Abstract

  Reprinted in: J.B. Davis, Recent Developments in Economic Methodology, Vol. II (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2006, 500-521.

• "Generic Features of Evolution and its Continuity -- A Transdisciplinary Perspective", Theoria 18 (48), 2003, pp. 273-288. Abstract
• "Games with Frequency-Dependent Stage Payoffs", International Journal of Game Theory, 31, 2002 (Oct. 2003), 609-620 (together with T. Brenner and R. Joosten). Abstract
• "Melioration Learning in Games With Constant and Frequency-Dependent Pay-offs", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , Vol. 50, 2003, 429-448 (together with T.Brenner). PDF
• "Economic Policy Making in Evolutionary Perspective", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 13, 2003, 77 - 94. PDF
• "Myopic behavior and cycles in Aggregate Output: A Note on the role of correlated quantity adjustments", Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, Vol. 222, 2002, 366-376 (together with G.Z. Sun). Abstract
• "The 'Nature' of the Firm - Static vs. Developmental Interpretations", Journal of Management and Governance, Vol. 5, 2001, 331-351, (together with K.Rathe). PDF
• "Germany's 'Social Market Economy' Between Social Ethos and Rent Seeking", The Independent Review, Vol. 6, 2002, 365-375. PDF
• "International Co-movements of Business Cycles in a 'Phase Locking' Model", Metroeconomica, Vol. 53, 2002, 113-138 (together with T.Brenner and W.Weidlich). Abstract
• "How Evolutionary Is Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development?" Industry and Innovation, Vol. 9, 2002, 7-22. PDF
• "Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism - The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics", Public Choice, Vol. 106, 2001, 365-388. Abstract PDF
• "Learning to Consume - A Theory of Wants and the Growth of Demand", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Vol. 11, 2001, 23-36. Abstract PDF
• "Changing Cognitive Frames - Changing Organizational Forms: An Entrepreneurial Theory of Organizational Development", Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 9, 2000, 733-755. Abstract PDF
• "Bioeconomics as Economics from a Darwinian Perspective", Journal of Bioeconomics, Vol. 1, 1999, 19-34. Abstract PDF

  Reprinted in: G. Hodgson (ed.) Darwinism and Economics, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2008

• "Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics", Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 11, 1999, 99-109. Abstract PDF
• "Imagination and Leadership: the Neglected Dimension of an Evolutionary Theory of the Firm", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 35, 1998, 161-177. Abstract PDF

  Reprinted in: R.N.Langlois, T. Fu-Lai Yu, P.L. Robertson (eds.), Alternative Theories of the Firm, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2002.
  Reprinted in: S.Gloria-Palermo, P.Boettke, S.Boehm (eds.), Modern Austrian Economics, Vol 3, London: Pickering & Chatto 2002.
  Reprinted in: M.Egidi, S.Rizello (eds.), Cognitive Economics, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2003.

• "Self-Organization and Economics - What is New?", Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Vol.8, 1997, 489-507. Abstract PDF

  Reprinted in: M.Egidi, S.Rizello (eds.), Cognitive Economics, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2004.

• "'Lock-in' vs. 'Critical Masses' -- Industrial Change Under Network Externalities", International Journal of Industrial Organization, Vol. 15, 1997, 753-773. Abstract PDF
• "The Hayekian Puzzle: Spontaneous Order and the Business Cycle", Scottish Journal of Political Economy, Vol. 44, 1997, 44-58. Abstract

  Reprinted in: B. Bouckaert, A. Godart van der Kroon (eds.) Hayek Revisited, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publ., 2000, 72-86.

• "A Darwinian Revolution in Economics?", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 152, 1996, 707-715. Abstract
• "Innovations, Externalities, and the Problem of Economic Progress", Public Choice, Vol. 89, 1996, 113-130. Abstract
• "The Emergence of a Protective Agency and the Constitutional Dilemma", Constitutional Political Economy, Vol. 3, 1992, 255-266.
• "Evolutionary Concepts in Economics", Eastern Economic Journal, Vol. 18, 1992, 405-419. Abstract
• "The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist", Public Choice, Vol. 73, 1992, 117-129. Abstract
• "Economics, Sociobiology, and Behavioral Psychology on Preferences", Journal of Economic Psychology, Vol. 12, 1991, 557-573. Abstract

  Reprinted in: G.Hodgson (ed.), Economics and Biology, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1995.

• "On the Emergence of Private Property Rights", Archives of Economic History, Vol. I, (Athen) 1991, 19-33.

  Reprinted in: S.Pejovich (ed.), The Economics of Property Rights, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 379-393, 2001.

• "The Evolution of Economic Institutions as a Propagation Process", Public Choice, Vol. 62, 1989, 155-172. Abstract

  Reprinted in: G.Hodgson (ed.), The Economics of Institutions, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics, Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1994.

• "How Transaction Rights Are Shaped to Channel Innovativeness", Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Vol. 143, 1987, 180-195. Abstract

  Reprinted in: M. Ricketts (ed.), The Economics of Modern Business Enterprise, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, Chap. 13 2008

• "Firm's Market Behavior under Imperfect Information and Economic Natural Selection", Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Vol. 7, 1986, 265-290. Abstract PDF
• "How Can Complex Economic Behavior Be Investigated? The Example of the Ignorant Monopolist Revisited", Behavioral Science, Vol. 31, 1986, 173-188. Abstract
• "Evolution and Stability of Cooperation Without Enforceable Contracts", Kyklos, Vol. 38, 1986, 245-265. Abstract

  Reprinted in: S.Gloria-Palermo, P.Boettke, S.Boehm (eds.), Modern Austrian Economics, Vol 3, London: Pickering & Chatto 2002.
  Reprinted in: E.L.Khalil (ed.),Trust, Aldershot: Edward Elgar 2003, 609-630.

• "Coordination of Individual Economic Activities as an Evolving Process of Self-Organization", Économie Appliquée, Tome 38, 1985, 569-595. Abstract

  Reprinted in: P.J.Boettke, D.L.Prychitko (eds.), Market Process Theories, (The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Reference Series), Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 1997

• "Economic Behavior and Biological Evolution - Some Remarks on the Sociobiology Debate", Zeitschrift für die gesamte Staatswissenschaft, Bd. 141, 1985, 365-389. Abstract

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