Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/31800
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0707
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
The emergence of novelty is a driving agent for economic change. New technologies, new products and services, new institutional arrangements, to mention a few examples, are the backbone of development and growth. Important though it is, the emergence of novelty is not well understood. What seems to be clear, however, is that it implies "bounds of unknowledge" (Shackle) that impose epistemological and methodological constraints on economic theorizing. In this paper, the problems will be examined, possibilities for positively theorizing about novelty will be explored, and the methodological consequences for causal explanations and the modeling of economics dynamics will be discussed.
Subjects: 
novelty
epistemic bounds
causation
dynamical systems
economic change
evolution
JEL: 
B41
C61
D83
O30
O31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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