Complexity and Co-Evolution

Edited by Elizabeth Garnsey and James McGlade

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Abstract: This book applies ideas and methods from the complexity perspective to key concerns in the social sciences, exploring co-evolutionary processes that have not yet been addressed in the technical or popular literature on complexity. Authorities in a variety of fields – including evolutionary economics, innovation and regeneration studies, urban modelling and history – re-evaluate their disciplines within this framework. The book explores the complex dynamic processes that give rise to socio-economic change over space and time, with reference to empirical cases including the emergence of knowledge-intensive industries and decline of mature regions, the operation of innovative networks and the evolution of localities and cities. Sustainability is a persistent theme and the practicability of intervention is examined in the light of these perspectives.

Keywords: Economics and Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845421403
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Nature of Complexity

James McGlade and Elizabeth Garnsey

Ch 2 Evolution, Diversity and Organization

Peter Allen, Mark Strathern and James Baldwin

Ch 3 Cities: Continuity, Transformation and Emergence

Michael Batty, Joana Barros and Sinésio Alves Júnior

Ch 4 Ecohistorical Regimes and La Longue Durée: An Approach to Mapping Long-Term Societal Change

James McGlade

Ch 5 Restless Capitalism: A Complexity Perspective on Modern Capitalist Economies

Ronald Ramlogan and J. Stanley Metcalfe

Ch 6 Industrial Resilience and Decline: A Co-Evolutionary Framework

James McGlade, Robert Murray, James Baldwin, Keith Ridgway and Belinda Winder

Ch 7 Diversity and Uniformity in the Evolution of Early Information and Communication Technologies

Elizabeth Garnsey, Paul Heffernan and Simon Ford

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