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Allgemeine Volkswirtschaftslehre (21 CP)Institutionelle und Evolutorische Ökonomie (nur BWL)InhalteContents of the courseLiteraturgames and strategies, Nash-equilibrium, mixed strategies,evolutionary stability, further path-dependence, self-organisation,lock-in, standardization, and strategy building, and more.They also will learn a set of core theories and models of modernevolutionary-institutional complexity economics of T.C. Schelling, R.R.Nelson / S.G. Winter, R. Axelrod, W.B. Arthur, E. Ostrom, P.D. Bush,and others. Economic applications and policy implications will bediscussed.Part 0 The General Structure of Complexity EconomicsPart I Complexity and Evolution, and Game TheoryPart II (Social) InstitutionsPart III Complex Process and Institutional EmergencePart IVPart VInstitutional Emergence as ‘Meso’-EconomicsInstitutional Emergence, Path-Dependence, Lock-In,and Institutional Change: Selected Anchor/CoreModelsW. Elsner et al., ‚Microeconomics of Interactive Economies‘,Evolutionary Institutional and Complexity Perspectives; Cheltenham,UK, Northampton, MA, USA: E. Elgar, 2012; plus Material unterwww.economics.us• Ausgewählte Artikel aus: / Selected Articles from:The Elgar Companion to Institutional and EvolutionaryEconomics, ed. by G.M. Hodgson, W.J. Samuels, M.R. Tool,Aldershot/Hants, UK, Brookfield, VT, USA: E. Elgar, 2 Vols.,1994.• S. Himmelweit et al., Microeconomics. Neoclassical andInstitutionalist Perspectives on Economic Behaviour, London:Thomson Learning, 2001.• R. Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation, New York: BasicBooks, 1984, 2nd ed. 2006, Chpts. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7.• S.P. Hargreaves Heap, Y. Varoufakis, Game Theory. ACritical Introduction, London, New York: Routledge, 1995, 2nded. 2005.• R.R. Nelson, S.G. Winter, An Evolutionary Theory ofEconomic Change, Cambridge, MA, USA, London: TheBelknap Pr. of Harvard Univ. Pr., 1982, Chpts. 5, 9.• P.S. Albin, Barriers and Bounds to Rationality: Essays onEconomic Complexity and Dynamics in Interactive Systems,ed. with an Introduction by D.K. Foley, Princeton, NJ:Princeton Univ. Pr., 1998, Chpt. 1, Introduction, pp. 3-72.• P.D. Bush, ‘The Theory of Institutional Change’, Journal ofEconomic Issues, XXI.3 (1987), 1075-116.• Foundations of Human Sociality. Economic Experiments andEthnographic Evidence from Fifteen Small-Scale Societies,ed. by J. Henrich, S. Bowles, H. Gintis, E. Fehr et al., Oxford,UK, New York et al.: Oxford Univ. pr., 2004.• S. Bowles, Microeconomics. Behavior, Institutions, andEvolution, New York, Princeton, Oxford: Russell Sage,Princeton Univ. Pr., 2004, repr. 2006, Chpts. 1, 2, 4, 14.• Ch.M.A. Clark, ‘Spontaneous Order Versus Instituted Process:The Market as Cause and Effect’, Journal of Economic Issues,XXVII.2 (1993), 373-85.• K. Dopfer, ‘Evolutionary Economics: a theoretical framework’,in: Id., (Ed.), The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics,Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 2005, Chpt. 1, 3-55.20