Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Science How Can Scientists Stud

This book aims to explain briefly the essential features of the founding theories of economics, and compare them with later theories developed to address inconsistencies in outcomes. The earlier stages of this book are focused on the economic ideas and th

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Yuji Aruka

Evolutionary Foundations of Economic Science How Can Scientists Study Evolving Economic Doctrines from the Last Centuries?

Evolutionary Economics and Social Complexity Science Volume 1

Editors in Chief Takahiro Fujimoto, Tokyo, Japan Yuji Aruka, Tokyo, Japan

Editorial Board Satoshi Sechiyama, Kyoto, Japan Yoshinori Shiozawa, Osaka, Japan Kiichiro Yagi, Neyagawa, Japan Kazuo Yoshida, Kyoto, Japan Hideaki Aoyama, Kyoto, Japan Hiroshi Deguchi, Yokohama, Japan Makoto Nishibe, Sapporo, Japan Takashi Hashimoto, Nomi, Japan Masaaki Yoshida, Kawasaki, Japan Tamotsu Onozaki, Tokyo, Japan Shu-Heng Chen, Taipei, Taiwan Dirk Helbing, Zurich, Switzerland

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The Japanese Association for Evolutionary Economics (JAFEE) always has adhered to its original aim of taking an explicit “integrated” approach. This path has been followed steadfastly since the Association’s establishment in 1997 and, as well, since the inauguration of our international journal in 2004. We have deployed an agenda encompassing a contemporary array of subjects including but not limited to: foundations of institutional and evolutionary economics, criticism of mainstream views in the social sciences, knowledge and learning in socio-economic life, development and innovation of technologies, transformation of industrial organizations and economic systems, experimental studies in economics, agent-based modeling of socio-economic systems, evolution of the governance structure of firms and other organizations, comparison of dynamically changing institutions of the world, and policy proposals in the transformational process of economic life. In short, our starting point is an “integrative science” of evolutionary and institutional views. Furthermore, we always endeavor to stay abreast of newly established methods such as agent-based modeling, socio/econo-physics, and network analysis as part of our integrative links. More fundamentally, “evolution” in social science is interpreted as an essential key word, i.e., an integrative and/or communicative link to understand and re-domain various preceding dichotomies in the sciences: ontological or epistemological, subjective or objective, homogeneous or heterogeneous, natural or artificial, selfish or altruistic, individualistic or collective, rational or irrational, axiomatic or psychological-based, causal nexus or cyclic networked, optimal or adaptive, microor macroscopic, deterministic or stochastic, historical or theoretical, mathematical or computational, experimental or empirical, agent-based or socio/econo-physical, institutional or evolutionary, regional or global, and so on. The conventional meanings adhering to various traditional dichotomies may be more or less obsolete, to be replaced with more current ones vis-à-vis contemporary academic trends. Thus we are strongly encouraged to integrate some of the conventional dichotomies. These attempts are not limited to the field of economic sciences, including management sciences,