Edited by Pavel Pelikan, KIE-VSE, Czech Republic and Gerhard Wegner, Professor of Economics, Erfurt University, Germany

'. . . the book provides a good overview on the link between evolutionary economics and its relevance for economic policy. . . it makes clear the enormous complexity of economic processes and the policy responses to them. Thus, it seems to us to be a very promising starting point to make evolutionary economics more relevant in economic policy-making.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Evolutionary Thinking on Economic Policy 2. Why Economic Policies Need Comprehensive Evolutionary Analysis 3. Evolutionary Markets and the Design of Institutional Policy 4. Knowledge and Economic Policy: A Plea for Political Experimentalism 5. Democracy as an Evolutionary Method 6. Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice – A Cognitive–Evolutionary View on Economic Policy Making 7. Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition and Technology Policy: New Perspectives on the Division of Labour and the Innovation Process 8. Institutional Evolution, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence 9. The German Neuer Markt as an Adaptive Institution 10. Understanding and the Mobilisation of Error: Eliminating Controls in Evolutionary Learning Index

Edited by Pavel Pelikan, KIE-VSE, Czech Republic and Gerhard Wegner, Professor of Economics, Erfurt University, Germany

'. . . the book provides a good overview on the link between evolutionary economics and its relevance for economic policy. . . it makes clear the enormous complexity of economic processes and the policy responses to them. Thus, it seems to us to be a very promising starting point to make evolutionary economics more relevant in economic policy-making.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Evolutionary Thinking on Economic Policy 2. Why Economic Policies Need Comprehensive Evolutionary Analysis 3. Evolutionary Markets and the Design of Institutional Policy 4. Knowledge and Economic Policy: A Plea for Political Experimentalism 5. Democracy as an Evolutionary Method 6. Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice – A Cognitive–Evolutionary View on Economic Policy Making 7. Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition and Technology Policy: New Perspectives on the Division of Labour and the Innovation Process 8. Institutional Evolution, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence 9. The German Neuer Markt as an Adaptive Institution 10. Understanding and the Mobilisation of Error: Eliminating Controls in Evolutionary Learning Index

Edited by Pavel Pelikan, KIE-VSE, Czech Republic and Gerhard Wegner, Professor of Economics, Erfurt University, Germany

'. . . the book provides a good overview on the link between evolutionary economics and its relevance for economic policy. . . it makes clear the enormous complexity of economic processes and the policy responses to them. Thus, it seems to us to be a very promising starting point to make evolutionary economics more relevant in economic policy-making.'

• Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: Evolutionary Thinking on Economic Policy 2. Why Economic Policies Need Comprehensive Evolutionary Analysis 3. Evolutionary Markets and the Design of Institutional Policy 4. Knowledge and Economic Policy: A Plea for Political Experimentalism 5. Democracy as an Evolutionary Method 6. Ideologies, Beliefs, and Economic Advice – A Cognitive–Evolutionary View on Economic Policy Making 7. Equilibrium and Evolutionary Foundations of Competition and Technology Policy: New Perspectives on the Division of Labour and the Innovation Process 8. Institutional Evolution, Regulatory Competition and Path Dependence 9. The German Neuer Markt as an Adaptive Institution 10. Understanding and the Mobilisation of Error: Eliminating Controls in Evolutionary Learning Index