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The human imprint on the biosphere has become so pronounced in recent years that there has been talk of a new geological era, the 'Anthropocene'. 2012 Level: advanced Towards an Integrated Paradigm in Heterodox Economics Julien-Francois Gerber, Rolf Steppacher Palgrave Macmillan UK Think Academy Think Academy Level: advanced Complexity Economics Think Academy Think Academy Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought A new evolutionary explanation of markets and investor behaviorHalf of all Americans have money in the stock market yet economists can t agree on whether investors and markets are rational and efficient as modern financial theory assumes or irrational and inefficient as behavioral … 2017 Level: advanced Adaptive Markets Andrew W. Lo Princeton University Press Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.
This book is about the application to economics of evolutionary ideas from biology.
1996 Level: advanced Economics and Evolution Geoffrey Martin Hodgson University of Michigan Press

Are humans at their core seekers of their own pleasure or cooperative members of society? Paradoxically, they are both. Pleasure-seeking can take place only within the context of what works within a defined community, and central to any community are the evolved codes and principles guiding appropriate behavior, or morality. 2013 Level: advanced From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities Geoffrey M. Hodgson University of Chicago Press Think Academy Think Academy Level: beginner Emergence Theory Think Academy Think Academy Technical change, defined as the manufacture and modification of tools, is generally thought to have played an important role in the evolution of intelligent life on earth, comparable to that of language. In this volume, first published in 1983, Jon Elster approaches the study of technical change from an epistemological perspective. 1983 Level: advanced Explaining Technical Change Jon Elster CUP Archive In reviewing this book in The Economic Journal, S.G. Checkland said that it should be read as a vigorous attempt to relate economics to general thinking and as a challenge to those who are practitioners or elaborators of narrowly prescribed techniques. 2017 Level: beginner Evolutionary Economics Hamilton, David Boyce Routledge

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