Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 12:24:11 +0100 (CET)
From: Loet Leydesdorff <loet-AT-sara.nl>
Subject: announcement
To: technology-AT-world.std.com


 
Loet Leydesdorff and Peter Van den Besselaar (eds.)
 
EVOLUTIONARY ECONOMICS AND CHAOS THEORY:
NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
(London, etc.: Pinter, 1994).
 
ISBN  1 85567 198 0 (hb)
      1 85567 202 2 (pb)
 
 
Table of Contents
 
 
Preface
 
1.    Peter M. Allen, Evolutionary Complex Systems: Models of Technology
      Change
 
 
PART I:     Evolutionary Economics Elaborated
 
2.    Richard R. Nelson, Economic Growth via the Co-Evolution of Technology
      and Institutions
 
3.    Hans-Peter Brunner, Technological Diversity, Random Selection in a
      Population of Firms, and Technological Institutions of Government
 
4.    Alfred Greiner and Friedrich Kugler, A Note on Competition among
      Techniques in the Presence of Increasing Returns to Scale
 
 
PART II:    Technology Dynamics: Competing Technologies
 
5.    Subhash C. Bhargava and Amitabha Mukherjee, Evolution of
      Technological Growth in a Model Based on Stochastic Cellular Automata
 
6.    Paul A. David and Dominique Foray, Dynamics of Competitive Technology
      Diffusion through Local Network Structures: The Case of EDI Document
      Standards.
 
7.    Eberhard Bruckner, Werner Ebeling, Miguel A. Jimenez Montano, and
      Andrea Scharnhorst,  Hyperselection and Innovation Described by a
      Stochastic Model of Technological Evolution
 
 
PART III:   Modelling the Evolution of Economic-Technological Systems
 
8.    Aura Reggiani and Peter Nijkamp, Evolutionary Dynamics in
      Technological Systems: A Multi-Layer Niche Approach
 
9.    Christian Kampmann, Christian Haxholdt, Erik Mosekilde, and John D.
      Sterman, Entrainment in a Disaggregated Economic Long Wave Model
 
10.   Peter M. Allen and Hoon K. Phang, Managing Uncertainty in Complex
      Systems: Financial Markets
 
 
PART IV:    Contributions from the Sociology of Technology
 
11.   Henry Etzkowitz, Academic-Industry Relations: A Sociological Paradigm
      for Economic Development
 
12.   Gertrud Blauwhof, Non-equilibria Dynamics and the Sociology of
      Technology
 
13.   Mary E. Lee, The Evolution of Technology: A Model of Socioecological
      Self-Organization
 
 
Epilogue
 
14.   Loet Leydesdorff, New Models of Technological Change: New Theories
      for Technology Studies?
 
 
Bibliography
Index