Zambelli,COMPUTABLE,CONSTRUCTIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS,2010[economia

Stefano Zambelli (ed.),
COMPUTABLE, CONSTRUCTIVE AND BEHAVIOURAL
ECONOMIC DYNAMICS.
Essays in honour of Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai.
Routledge, New York 2010,
brossura, 23,5x15,5 cm., pp.533,
testo in lingua inglese,
Collana: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy,
dedica autografa dell'Autore,
peso: g.867

cod.2396

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Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction
STEFANO ZAMBELLI
PART I - Prelude
1 Computable and constructive economics, undecidable
dynamics and algorithmic rationality: an essay in honour
of Professor Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai
2 From an admirer and a friend
ROBERT W. CLOWER
PART II - Dynamical systems, business cycles and
macroeconomics
3 The Richard Goodwin circle at Harvard (1938-1950)
PAUL A. SAMUELSON
4 Not growth, not cycles, but something in between
ROBERT SOLOW
5 The nonlinear path of macroeconomic dynamics
AXEL LEIJONHUF VUD
PART III - Computable economics
6 The information economy
GREGORY CHAITIN
7 Hypotheses that imply the independence of P = NP from
strong axiomatic systems
N.C.A. DA COSTA AND FA. DOR IA
8 Universal models
JORMA RISSANEN
9 Model description length priors in the urn problem
DUNCAN K. FOLEY
PART IV -Constructivity, rationality and complexity in economic
theory
10 The honeybee as teacher
JOHN J. McCALL
11 Constructivist logic and emergent evolution in economic
complexity
J. BARKLEY ROSSER, JR.
12 Remarks on numerical systems, algorithms and economic
theory
RICHARD H. DAY
13 An experiment on equilibrium selection: the relative
unimportance of context
HÂKAN J. HOLM
14 The complexity of social choice
PART V - History of thought and methodology
15 Varieties of internal critique
TONY LAWSON
16 Rational economic man: a centrepiece in social science?
CARSTEN HE YN-JOHNSEN
17 Resisting the sirens of realism in economic methodology:
a Socratic odyssey
THOMAS A. BOYLAN AND PASCHAL F. O’GORMAN
18 Who, in Scandinavian economic theoretic literature, picked
up major threads from Wicksell’s writings?
B. THALBERG
PART VI Capital, viability and growth
19 The accumulation of capital over 50 years on
G.C. HARCOURT AND PRUE KERR
20 The means of subsistence and the notion of‘viability’ in
Sraffa’s surplus approach
GUGL1ELMO CHIODI
21 A disequilibrium growth cycle model with differential
savings
SERENA SORDI
part vii -Markets and their behaviours
Evolution of FX markets and new financial economics
joseph l McCauley
23 Elasticy Puzzle: an inquiry into micro-macro relations
SHU-HENG CHEN, YA-CIU HUANG AND JEN-FU WANG
24 Bubbles and crashes: a cyborg approach
RALPH ABRAHAM, TODD FELDMAN AND
DANIEL FRIEDMAN
25 Is there gold in Taylor’s rule? A note on the treasure hunt
FRANCESCO LUNA
26 The economics or Keynes in an almost stock-flow consistent
agent-based setting
CHARLOTTE BRUUN
27 Minsky’s ’financial instability hypothesis’:
the not-too-Keynesian optimism of a financial Cassandra
ELISABETTA DE ANTONI
28 Organizational capabilities and industry dynamics:
a computational model
MARCO CORSINO, ROBERTO GABRIELE AND
ENRICO ZANINOTTO
PART VIII -Finale
29 The most difficult questions: a brief reflection inspired by
K. Vela Velupillai’s contributions in computable economics,
evolution and complexity
CASSEY LEE
30 A homage to my father
Author index
Subject index