Patrick Spread

Gebundenes Buch

The Evolution of Economies

Money-bargaining, economic change and industrial revolution

Beschreibung

The Evolution of Economies provides a clear account of how economies evolve under a process of support bargaining and money bargaining. They both allow people to determine their interests and requirements by reference to their present circumstances. This gives the bargaining system a natural evolutionary dynamic, allowing society to evolve from situation to situation. This book engages with the current body of work in evolutionary economics, but also departs from it in embarking on a systematic examination of its relationship with recorded economic history. At the same time, this book also explores how neoclassical theory came to be accepted as the mainstream theory of the workings of an economy, assessing the achievements of evolutionary economists. A central chapter is devoted to reinterpretation of the industrial revolution in terms of the evolutionary dynamic of money bargaining. This book is of interest to those who study political economy, history of economic thought and international political economy.

Autor

Patrick Spread spent his early years in the Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire villages where his father was vicar. In his teens he was at Wellington College, going on to Oxford University. After a few years in London he went to work overseas, first in the Solomon Islands and then in other countries, including Fiji, Indonesia, Georgia and Ethiopia. In time out from these assignments he worked on theory consistent with the experience. He received a doctorate at the London Business School in 1982. In recent years he has been able to give full attention to theoretical issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 690g
• ISBN-13: 9781138122918
• ISBN-10: 1138122912
• Artikelnr.: 43919914