Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution

Part I. The Philosophical and Methodological Implications of Complexity and Evolution in Economic Systems: 1. Towards a generalized coase theorem: a theory of the emergence of social and institutional structures under imperfect information Bertin Martens; 2. Universal Darwinism and social research: the case of economics John Nightingale; 3. Uncertainty, risk and chaos James Juniper; 4. The role of innovation within economics Russell K. Standish; Part II. Finance and the Macro-economy: 5. The nonlinear economics of debt deflation Steve Keen; 6. The emergence of complex dynamics in a 'naturally' nonlinear integrated Keynesian model of monetary growth Carl Chiarella and Peter Flaschel; 7. Stochastic volatility in interest rates and complex dynamics in velocity William A. Barnett and Haiyang Xu; 8. A genetic programming-based approach to generation of foreign exchange trading models Andrew Colin; 9. Hybrid option pricing using an optimal weighted implied standard deviation Paul Lajbcygier, Andrew Flitman and Mairmuthu Palaniswami; Part III. Market and Sectoral Dynamics: 10. Evolutionary patterns of multisectoral growth dynamics Hermann Schnabl; 11. The detection of evolutionary change in nonlinear economic processes: a new statistical methodology John Foster and Phillip Wild; 12. Ergodic chaos in a piecewise linear cobweb model Akio Matsumato; 13. The cobweb model and a modified genetic algorithm Janice Gaffney, Krystyna Parrott and Franz Salzborn; 14. On the convergence of genetic learning algorithms, with particular reference to recent cobweb models C. E. M. Pearce; Part IV. Marketing and Interdependent Behaviour: 15. A complex systems simulation approach to evaluating plan-based and reactive trading strategies Robert B. Johnson and John M. Betts; 16. Genetic algorithms and evolutionary games Xin Yao and Paul Darwen; 17. Evolved perception and the validation of simulation models Robert Marks; 18. The application of cellular automata and agent models to network externalities in consumers' theory: a generalization of life game Sobei H. Oda, Ken Miura, Kanji Ueda and Yasunori Baba; 19. Engendering change Joshua S. Gans.