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Evolutionary Microeconomics

By Jacques Lesourne , André Orléan , Bernard Walliser , P. Bourgine , E. Fauchart , J.-F. Laslier , L. Mareng

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
3540285369, 9783540285366, 9783540285373
Open Library ID
OL9055878M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1765830 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
305\296
Topic
Economy
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Classical microeconomics is intended to explain how a price system is able to coordinate the economic agents. But even if it can be extended to incomplete information and externalities, it remains grounded on very heroic assumptions. Agents are endowed with a very strong rationality, equilibrium is stated without a concrete process to achieve it, market is the unique institution considered. Evolutionary microeconomics is aimed at bypassing these limitations by considering a dynamic approach, however not biologically oriented. Agents have local information and bounded rationality, they are involved in explicit processes of interactions through time, various institutions sustain the market or substitute to it. It explains then some phenomena hardly explained by classical microeconomics: dispersion of prices, variety of industrial structures, financial bubbles.

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