Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution: Topics in Economics, Finance, Marketing, and Management: Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium in Economic Theory and Econometrics

Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution is a significant contribution to the new paradigm straddling economics, finance, marketing, and management, which acknowledges that commercial systems are evolutionary systems, and must therefore be analyzed using evolutionary tools. Evolutionary systems display complicated behaviors that are to a significant degree generated endogenously, rather than being solely the product of exogenous shocks, hence the conjunction of complexity with evolution. The papers in this volume consider a wide range of systems, from the entire economy at one extreme to the behavior of single markets at the other.

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Papers from conference at Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 1996. Text discusses the emerging paradigm where markets are viewed as complex evolutionary multi-agent systems. Offers a wide variety of philosophical ideas and methodological innovations contributing to this paradigm. DLC: Econometrics--Congresses.

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Evolutionary approach to systems from the entire economy to the behaviour of single markets.