The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies: Part One: Innovation, Organization, and Industrial Dynamics

The Foundations of Complex Evolving Economies seeks to offer an integrated analysis of the anatomy and physiology of the capitalist engine of generation and exploitation of technological organizational and institutional innovations - from the drivers of knowledge accumulation, to the modes in which such knowledge is incorporated into business firms, all the way to the processes of innovation-driven “Schumpeterian competition” and macroeconomic growth.In that, it advances the interpretation of such patterns, in terms of economies seen as complex evolving systems.The basic objects of analysis are the history of the emergence and development of modern capitalist economies and their current functionings.Indeed , the tall ambition of the book is to address two basic questions at the core of the whole economic discipline since its inception.They regard, first, the drivers and patterns of change of the capitalistic machine of production and innovation and, second, the mechanisms of coordinati