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The Evolution of Economic Systems

Essays in Honor of Ota Sik

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Introduction: Sik’s Third Way of Economic Evolution

  3. An Interdisciplinary View

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19
    2. Changing Priorities

      • Jan Tinbergen
      Pages 21-31
    3. Limitations to the Interdependence of Systems

      • Gerhard Schwarz
      Pages 32-42
    4. Economics, Environment and the Faustian Imperative

      • Hans Christoph Binswanger, Malte Faber, Reiner Manstetten
      Pages 43-58
    5. Systems Reproduction in Interdisciplinary Perspective

      • Leonhard Bauer, Herbert Matis
      Pages 59-67
    6. Why Some Reforms Succeed

      • Gerhard O. Mensch
      Pages 68-76
    7. A Cognitive-evolutionary Theory of Economic Policy

      • Alfred Meier, Susanne Haury
      Pages 77-87
  4. The Evolution of Market Systems: (1) Principal Aspects of Market Evolution

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89
    2. The Self-organisation of the Economy

      • Michael Hutter
      Pages 100-110
    3. Evolution and Innovation

      • Jochen Röpke
      Pages 111-120
    4. Waves in Long-term Economic Development

      • René Höltschi, Christian Rockstroh
      Pages 121-129
  5. The Evolution of Market Systems: (2) Reproduction, Institutions and Governmental Planning

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 131-131
    2. Plan, Market and Banking

      • J. A. Kregel
      Pages 133-140
    3. The Market and the Classical Theory of Prices

      • Bertram Schefold
      Pages 141-154
    4. Some Thoughts on Plan and Market

      • Alec Nove
      Pages 155-164
  6. Evolution of Planning Systems: (1) General Evolution of Planning Systems

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175

About this book

Honouring Ota Sik's economics, political life, and his social and humane concerns, this book brings together contributions from economists from East and West. It examines principally the evolution of different economic systems.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Kurt Dopfer, Karl-F. Raible

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