Minerva
Ulrich Witt
Professor of Economics
Past Director of the Evolutionary Economics Group,
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena

former Evolutionary Economics Group

Papers 2001
#0112
U. Witt
How Evolutionary is Schumpeter's Theory of Economic Development?

published in: Industry and Innovation, 2002, Vol.9, pp. 7 - 22.

#0111
R. Joosten
On Repeated Games with Vanishing Actions

published in: International Game Theory Review, 2005, Vol. 7 (1), 107 - 115.

#0110
U. Witt
Social Cognitive Learning and Group Selection - A Hayekian Model of Societal Evolution

published as: "Observational learning, group selection, and societal evolution", Journal of Institutional Economics 4:1 (2008), 1–24.

#0109
W. Wadman
Technological Change, Human Capital and Extinction

published in: Journal of Bioeconomics, 2001, Vol.3, pp. 65 - 68

#0108
T. Brenner, T. Slembeck
Noisy Decision Makers. On Errors, Noise and Inconsistencies in Economic Behavior
#0107
U. Witt
Conceptions vs. Routines - On the Development of Firms and the Evolution of Markets
#0106
C. Sartorius
The Evolution of Social Norms and Values by Means of Social Group Selection

published as: "The Relevance of the Group for the Evolution of Social Norms and Values.", Constitutional Political Economy, 2002, Vol. 13, pp. 149 - 172.

#0105
G. Buenstorf
Designing Clunkers: Demand-Side Innovation and the Early History of the Mountain Bike

published in: J. S. Metcalfe; U. Cantner (eds.): Change, Transformation and Development. Heidelberg: Physica, (2003), pp. 53-70.

#0104
W. Ruprecht
Consumption of Sweeteners: An Evolutionary Analysis of Historical Development

published as: "The historical development of the consumption of sweeteners - a learning approach" Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 15 (2005): 247-272.

#0103
T. Brenner
Self-organisation, Local Symbiosis and the Emergence of Localised Industrial Clusters

published in: T. Brenner, 'Local Industrial Clusters, Existence, Emergence and Evolution, Routledge', London,2004, ch. 2.2

#0102
H. Siegenthaler
Understanding and the Mobilisation of Error - Eliminating Controls in Evolutionary Learning
#0101
U. Witt
The Evolutionary Perspective on Economic Policy Making - Does it Make a Difference?

published as: "Economic Policy Making in Evolutionary Perspective", Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 2003, Vol.13(2), pp. 77-94.