Complexity and the Economy

Contents:
Introduction: The Scope of Complexity and its Implications for Policy
John Finch and Magali Orillard
Part I: The Development of Complexity Perspectives
1. Complexity and the Economy: An Interview with W. Brian Arthur
W. Brian Arthur interviewed by Robert Delorme and Geoffrey M. Hodgson
2. Individual and Aggregate Behaviour: Of Ants and Men
Alan Kirman
3. Complexity Needs Strategy First Rather than Simplification: Why I am a Satisficing and Unrepentant Simonian
Jean-Louis Le Moigne
Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Complexity
4. From Possession to Property: Preferences and the Role of Culture
Uta-Maria Niederle
5. Landscape of a Prolific Convergence: Fernand Braudel and Institutional Economics
Eyuep OEzveren
6. The Naturalist View of Universal Darwinism: An Application to the Evolutionary Theory of the Firm
J.W. Stoelhorst
Part III: Complexity in Organizations
7. Trust and Transaction Costs
Alexander Lascaux
8. Trust in Post-Bureaucratic Organizations
Grainne Collins
9. Two Complex Lighthouse Production Systems: The Mixed English and the Centralized French Systems
Elodie Bertrand
Part IV: Complexity, Strategies and Policies
10. Complexity and Industry Evolution: New Insights from an Old Industry
Virginia Acha and Stefano Brusoni
11. The Codification of Technological Knowledge, Technological Complexity, and the Division of Innovative Labour: A Case from the Semiconductor Industry in the 1990s
Norio Tokumaru
12. Technology Strategy and Knowledge Dynamics: The Case of Biotechnology
Lionel Nesta and Ludovic Dibiaggio
13. Comparing Post-Socialist Employment 'Informalization' in the Czech Republic and Hungary
Cristina Matos
Index

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