The provenance of an economics of adaptation in long-term relationships

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Chapter 1 in The Economics of Adaptation and Long-term Relationships, 2019, pp 1-45 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Since at least the early nineteenth century, a great deal of political economy had become occupied with resource allocation.It became occupied with understanding the relative merits of economic systems coordinated by decentralized processes (market-mediated exchange) orby centralized processes invested in a hypothesized administrative state.Debate ultimately inspired advances in theories of system design at the microeconomic level.These advances folded incentive constraints and informational constraints into a formidable theory of the secondbest.The theory, however, yet corresponds to Vernon Smith’s institution-free core of economic theory.The question remained about whether the core encompassed all of the important action or if the analysis of ex post governance in economic relations would require further theoretical developments.Specifically, problems of adapting relationships to contingencies, programmable or unprogrammable, remained outside of the purview of the theory.The addition of incomplete contracting and friction (as in haggling costs) makes adaptation an interesting economic problem.

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Date: 2019
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