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Rethinking Economic Behaviour D. Simpson

Rethinking Economic Behaviour By D. Simpson

Rethinking Economic Behaviour by D. Simpson

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Treating the market economy as a complex adaptive system offers a better explanation of how it works than does the mechanical analogy of neoclassical equilibrium theory.

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Rethinking Economic Behaviour: How the Economy Really Works by D. Simpson

Treating the market economy as a complex adaptive system offers a better explanation of how it works than does the mechanical analogy of neoclassical equilibrium theory. The nonlinear interactions of millions of individual human beings, coupled with the influence of chance, result in the emergence of markets. Other regularities emerge in the patterns of economic growth, business cycles and in the spatial locations of economic activity. Rethinking Economic Behaviour demonstrates the implication of complexity theory for business and government decision-making, and concludes with an assessment of the future evolution of the market economy.

Rethinking Economic Behaviour Reviews

'Professor David Simpson has launched the most authoritative assult so far on mainstream economic thinking and the neoclassical equilibrium theory that underlies it.' - Lord David Howell, Daily Telegraph

'David Simpson has written a very important book. In his usual clear and incisive style he demolished the idea that economy is like a machine and he sets out a new paradigm. In place of the machine there is an evolving interactive system where entrepreneurship and institutions play central roles. His ideas are timely because his view of economics is consistent with the new information economy about which new-classical equilibrium analysis has little useful to say.' - Professor Colin Robinson, Editorial Director, Institute of Economic Afffairs

'a highly readable book...Simpson has had long experience of communicating with the business world.' - Samuel Brittan, Financial Times

'Simpson's work comes as something of a shock to those who believe economics to be about planning and regulation control based on the outpourings of computer forecasting models. As a counter to this warm delusion, his highly readable and provocative book is a necessary shock of iced water.' - Bill Jamieson, The Scotsman

About D. Simpson

DAVID SIMPSON is Economic Adviser to the Standard Life Assurance Company, and is currently an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University, a Trustee of the David Hume Institute, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Institute of Economic Affairs. He is the author of several books, including General Equilibrium Economics (1975), The Political Economy of Growth (1983), and The End of Macro-Economics (1994). He has also contributed articles to periodicals ranging from Econometrica and Scientific American to The Spectator and the Financial Times.

Table of Contents

Preface Introduction The Economy as a Machine The Pretence of Knowledge Economics and Politics Economics and Business From Mechanical to Biological Analogies The Economy as a Human Complex Adaptive System The Co-ordination of Economic Activity The Evolution of Economic Institutions The Lessons of History Patterns in Economic Activity Adaptation in the Market Economy Implications for Economics Implications for Business and Government The Future of the Market Economy Conclusions Notes Inde

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NPB9780333779262
9780333779262
0333779266
Rethinking Economic Behaviour: How the Economy Really Works by D. Simpson
D. Simpson
New
Hardback
Palgrave Macmillan
2000-09-29
234
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