Introduction and Registration

Consultation: Seminar paper and other questions, on individual basis

Classical and Neoclassical Economics

History of Economic Thought as analytical shift from: Long-run to short run variables, Dynamics to Statics, Knowledge-based to Operation-based analysis, “Naturalist” approach, petrifying the Cartesian world view in contemporary standard economics, Outlook.

Evolutionary Economics: What´s new?

Knowledge evolves, structural complexity and novelty-driven change, Meso connects Micro and macro, New statics of knowledge coordination and newdynamics of knowledge change of economy, Complexity economics and Evolutionary economics integrated

Phylogeny, Culture and Economic Evolution

Economy as living system, Layers ecological and cultural, Humans and non-human primates as culture-making species, “Anthropological Difference”, What we may learn from biological approaches to cultural evolution for economics and other social sciences.

Homo Sapiens Oeconomicus (HSO): Cognitive and Behavioral Economics

Why improving Homo oeconomicus is not enough, HSO deals with knowledge, “symbolic species”, Rule maker und rule user, Cognitive and behavioral trajectories, Ostrom, Nelson-Winter, Taxonomy of rule vectors, Evolutionary theory of firm and of household.

Sustainability, Resilience and Inclusiveness in Economic Evolution

Transition to ecologically sustainable structures of production and consumption, Co-evolutionary linkages, Novel forms of economic participation, Long-run distributional trends, New governance structures and policies.

Creative Commons: New Ideas in Economic Evolution

Future trends, IT and internet, Evolution of things and of ideas in the digital age as an economic problem, Policies for monitoring the “knowledge economy” in the face of exploding information, Future co-evolution between economy and other realms of human cultural evolution.