Rethinking Economic Behaviour
eBook - PDF

Rethinking Economic Behaviour

How the Economy Really Works

  1. English
  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Rethinking Economic Behaviour

How the Economy Really Works

About this book

Treating the market economy as a complex adaptive system offers a better explanation of how it works than does the mechanical analogy of neoclassical equilibrium theory. The nonlinear interactions of millions of individual human beings, coupled with the influence of chance, result in the emergence of markets. Other regularities emerge in the patterns of economic growth, business cycles and in the spatial locations of economic activity. Rethinking Economic Behaviour demonstrates the implication of complexity theory for business and government decision-making, and concludes with an assessment of the future evolution of the market economy.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Rethinking Economic Behaviour
  3. Contents
  4. Preface
  5. Chapter 1 Introduction
  6. Chapter 2 The Economy as a Machine
  7. Chapter 3 The Pretence of Knowledge
  8. Chapter 4 Economics and Politics
  9. Chapter 5 Economics and Business
  10. Chapter 6 From Mechanical to Biological Analogies
  11. Chapter 7 The Economy as a Human Complex Adaptive System
  12. Chapter 8 The Coordination of Economic Activity
  13. Chapter 9 The Evolution of Economic Institutions
  14. Chapter 10 The Lessons of History
  15. Chapter 11 Patterns in Economic Activity
  16. Chapter 12 Adaptation in the Market Economy
  17. Chapter 13 Implications for Economics
  18. Chapter 14 Implications for Business and Government
  19. Chapter 15 The Future of the Market Economy
  20. Chapter 16 Conclusions
  21. Notes
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index