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Working Papers

2012

1. Economic Cosmology and the Evolutionary Challenge
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
2. The Energy Paradox of Sectoral Change and the Future Prospects of the Service Economy
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group

2011

3. As Innovations Drive Economic Growth, Do they also Raise Well-Being?
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
4. Competition as an Ambiguous Discovery Procedure: A Reappraisal of Hayek's Epistemic Market Liberalism
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
5. Disentangling Motivational and Experiential Aspects of "Utility" - A Neuroeconomics Perspective
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
6. Parting with "Blue Monday" – Preferences in Home Production and Consumer Responses to Innovations
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
7. Sustainability and the Problem of Consumption
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
8. The Dynamics of Consumer Behavior and the Transition to Sustainable Consumption Patterns
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group

2010

9. Can Darwinism Be "Generalized" and of What Use Would This Be?
   Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
   See also Journal Article in Journal of Evolutionary Economics (2011)
10. Economic Behavior - Evolutionary vs. Behavioral Perspectives
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (5)
11. Extending the Informational Basis of Welfare Economics: The Case of Preference Dynamics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (3)

2009

12. Emergence and Functionality of Organizational Routines An Individualistic Approach
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Institutional Economics (2011)

2008

13. Constitutional Interests in the Face of Innovations: How Much Do We Need to Know about Risk Preferences?
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article in Constitutional Political Economy (2008)
14. Symbolic Consumption and the Social Construction of Product Characteristics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
    See also Journal Article in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2010)

2007

15. Heuristic Twists and Ontological Creeds - Road Map for Evolutionary Economics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
16. How Firm Organizations Adapt to Secure a Sustained Knowledge Transfer
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
    See also Journal Article in Economics of Innovation and New Technology (2009)
17. Knowledge and its Economic Characteristics - A Conceptual Clarification
    Jena Economic Research Papers, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics View citations (2)
18. Novelty and the Bounds of Unknowledge in Economics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (4)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Economic Methodology (2009)
19. Output Dynamics, Flow Equilibria and Structural Change – A Prolegomenon to Evolutionary Macroeconomics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)

2006

20. Evolutionary Economics
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (106)
21. Evolutionary Economics and Psychology
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)

2005

22. Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Management Studies (2007)
23. From Sensory to Positivist Utilitarianism and Back -- The Rehabilitation of Naturalistic Conjectures in the Theory of Demand
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (4)
24. Knowledge-based Entrepreneurship: The Organizational Side of Technology Commercialization
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (7)
    Also in CEMI Working Papers, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Collège du Management de la Technologie, Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship Institute, Chaire en Economie et Management de l'Innovation (2005)
25. Reasoning About Novelty
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group

2004

26. Network-Induced Oscillatory Behavior in Material Flow Networks and Business Cycles
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (2)
27. On Novelty and Heterogeneity
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (3)

2003

28. 'Production' in Nature and Production in the Economy - Second Thoughts about Some Basic Economic Concepts
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
    See also Journal Article in Structural Change and Economic Dynamics (2005)
29. The Evolutionary Perspective on Organizational Change and the Theory of the Firm
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (4)
30. The Proper Interpretation of 'Evolution' in Economics and the Example of Production Theory
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
31. Yesterday’s Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending, 1890-1938
    Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques

2002

32. Generic Features of Evolution and Its Continuity -- a Transdisciplinary Perspective
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (5)
33. Market Opportunity and Organizational Grind - The two Sides of Entrepreneurship
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
34. Yesterday's Games: Contingency Learning and the Growth of Public Spending
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)

Undated

35. Conceptions vs. Routines - On the Development of Firms and the Evolution of Markets
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group
36. How Evolutionary is Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development?
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (7)
    See also Journal Article in Industry & Innovation (2002)
37. Social Cognitive Learning and Group Selection - A Hayekian Model of Societal Evolution
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group View citations (1)
38. The Evolutionary Perspective on Economic Policy Making - Does it Make a Difference?
    Papers on Economics and Evolution, Max Planck Institute of Economics, Evolutionary Economics Group

Journal Articles

2011

1. Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be?
   Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2011, 21, (4), 545-562
   See also Working Paper (2010)
2. Emergence and functionality of organizational routines: an individualistic approach
   Journal of Institutional Economics, 2011, 7, (02), 157-174 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2009)

2010

3. Symbolic consumption and the social construction of product characteristics
   Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2010, 21, (1), 17-25 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2008)

2009

4. How firm organizations adapt to secure a sustained knowledge transfer
   Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2009, 18, (7), 647-661 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper (2007)
5. Novelty and the bounds of unknowledge in economics
   Journal of Economic Methodology, 2009, 16, (4), 361-375 View citations (4)
   See also Working Paper (2007)
6. Propositions about novelty
   Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2009, 70, (1-2), 311-320 View citations (5)

2008

7. Constitutional interests in the face of innovations: how much do we need to know about risk preferences?
   Constitutional Political Economy, 2008, 19, (3), 203-225 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper (2008)
8. Observational learning, group selection, and societal evolution
   Journal of Institutional Economics, 2008, 4, (01), 1-24 View citations (5)
9. What is specific about evolutionary economics?
   Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2008, 18, (5), 547-575 View citations (11)

2007

10. Firms as Realizations of Entrepreneurial Visions
    Journal of Management Studies, 2007, 44, (7), 1125-1140 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper (2005)

2006

11. Evolutionary concepts in economics and biology
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2006, 16, (5), 473-476 View citations (5)
12. How Problems of Organisational Growth in Firms Affect Industry Entry and Exit
    Revue de l'OFCE, 2006, 97 bis, (5), 47-62 View citations (1)

2005

13. 'Production' in nature and production in the economy--second thoughts about some basic economic concepts
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2005, 16, (2), 165-179 View citations (1)
    See also Working Paper (2003)
14. Approaches to production theory
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 2005, 16, (2), 159-163

2004

15. Arms and the Man: World War I and the Rise of the Welfare State
    Kyklos, 2004, 57, (4), 475-504 View citations (8)
16. On the proper interpretation of 'evolution' in economics and its implications for production theory
    Journal of Economic Methodology, 2004, 11, (2), 125-146 View citations (17)

2003

17. Economic policy making in evolutionary perspective
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2003, 13, (2), 77-94 View citations (29)
18. Melioration learning in games with constant and frequency-dependent pay-offs
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2003, 50, (4), 429-448 View citations (5)

2002

19. HOW EVOLUTIONARY IS SCHUMPETER'S THEORY OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT?
    Industry & Innovation, 2002, 9, (1-2), 7-22 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper
20. Myopic Behavior and Cycles in Aggregate Output - A Note on the Role of Correlated Quantity Adjustments
    Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2002, 222, (3), 366-376

2001

21. Between Appeasement and Belligerent Moralism: The Evolution of Moral Conduct in International Politics
    Public Choice, 2001, 106, (3-4), 365-88 View citations (1)
22. special issue: Economic Growth - What Happens on the Demand Side? Introduction
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2001, 11, (1), 1-5
23. special issue: Learning to consume - A theory of wants and the growth of demand
    Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2001, 11, (1), 23-36 View citations (14)

2000

24. Changing Cognitive Frames--Changing Organizational Forms: An Entrepreneurial Theory of Organizational Development
    Industrial and Corporate Change, 2000, 9, (4), 733-55 View citations (16)

1999

25. Do Entrepreneurs Need Firms? A Contribution to a Missing Chapter in Austrian Economics
    The Review of Austrian Economics, 1999, 11, (1-2), 99-109 View citations (12)
    Also in The Review of Austrian Economics, 1999, 11, (1), 99-109 (1999) View citations (1)

1998

26. Imagination and leadership - The neglected dimension of an evolutionary theory of the firm
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1998, 35, (2), 161-177 View citations (59)

1997

27. "Lock-in" vs. "critical masses" -- Industrial change under network externalities
    International Journal of Industrial Organization, 1997, 15, (6), 753-773 View citations (12)
28. Self-organization and economics--what is new?
    Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, 1997, 8, (4), 489-507 View citations (13)
29. The Hayekian Puzzle: Spontaneous Order and the Business Cycle
    Scottish Journal of Political Economy, 1997, 44, (1), 44-58 View citations (4)

1996

30. Innovations, Externalities and the Problem of Economic Progress
    Public Choice, 1996, 89, (1-2), 113-30 View citations (12)

1992

31. Evolutionary Concepts in Economics
    Eastern Economic Journal, 1992, 18, (4), 405-419 View citations (11)
32. The Endogenous Public Choice Theorist
    Public Choice, 1992, 73, (1), 117-29 View citations (10)

1991

33. Economics, sociobiology and behavioral psychology on preferences
    Journal of Economic Psychology, 1991, 12, (4), 557-573 View citations (4)

1986

34. Evolution and Stability of Cooperation without Enforceable Contracts
    Kyklos, 1986, 39, (2), 245-66 View citations (8)
35. Firms' market behavior under imperfect information and economic natural selection
    Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 1986, 7, (3), 265-290 View citations (4)