List of Figures and Tables |
Preface |
Introduction |
Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms and Complex Economic Dynamics / 1: |
Order and Disorder: the Economy as a Self-Organized System / 1.1: |
Uncertainty, Irreversibility and Increasing Returns / 1.2: |
Random Economies with Many Interacting Agents / 1.3: |
The Coevolution of Technologies, Conventions, Organizations and Institutions / 1.4: |
The Content of the Book / 1.5: |
Some Mathematics for Complex Economic Systems / 2: |
Dynamical Systems / 2.1: |
Bifurcations / 2.2: |
Catastrophic Behaviour / 2.3: |
Symmetry-breaking and Broken Ergodicity / 2.4: |
Percolation Theory / 2.5: |
The Theory of Self-Organized Criticality / 2.6: |
Path-dependence and Long-time Behaviour: The Role of 'History' / 2.7: |
Network Externalities and Discontinuous Adoption Paths / 3: |
Bandwagon Effects / 3.1: |
The Model / 3.2: |
The Characteristics of the Equilibrium Adoption Path / 3.3: |
Further Remarks / 3.4: |
Exit from Lock-in and Market Information / 4: |
Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms and 'Recontracting' Processes / 4.1: |
Pseudo Network Externalities / 4.2: |
Large Deviations / 4.4: |
Examples / 4.5: |
Positive Feedbacks and Lock-in by Random Events / 4.6: |
Competing Technologies and Lock-in / 5.1: |
When does Technology B Achieve a Monopoly? / 5.2: |
Lock-in to the 'Wrong' Technology / 5.4: |
Some Policy Issues / 5.5: |
Regularities in the Aggregate Behaviour of Interacting Economic Agents / 6: |
Some Conditions for the Emergence of Institutions / 6.1: |
The Evolution of Conventions / 6.2: |
Evolutionary Game Dynamics / 6.3: |
The Formation of Opinions / 6.4: |
Dynamic Models of Local Interactions / 6.5: |
Morphogenesis of an Institution / 6.6: |
Conclusion |
Bibliography |
Index |
List of Figures and Tables |
Preface |
Introduction |
Self-Reinforcing Mechanisms and Complex Economic Dynamics / 1: |
Order and Disorder: the Economy as a Self-Organized System / 1.1: |
Uncertainty, Irreversibility and Increasing Returns / 1.2: |