Evolutionary Economics - Bibliography

Charles MacKay (1841) – 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds'.

Schumpeter, Joseph (1943) – 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy', George Allen and Unwin.

Tiebout, Charles M (1956) – 'A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures', Journal of Political Economy.

Galbraith, J K (1958) – 'The Affluent Society', Hamish Hamilton.

Kuhn, Thomas (1962) – ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', University of Chicago.

McNeill, William (1963) – ‘The Rise of the West’, University of Chicago.

Maslow, Abraham (1964) – 'Motivation and Personality', New York, Harper.

Buchanan, James & Tullock, Gordon (1965) – ‘The Calculus of Consent’, Ann Arbour.

Hicks, John (1969) – ‘A Theory of Economic History’, Oxford University Press.

Mathias, Peter (1969) – ‘The First Industrial Nation, an economic history of Britain 1700-1914’, Methuen.

De Bono, Edward (1970) – ‘Lateral thinking, a textbook of creativity’, Penguin.

Bronowski, Jacob (1973) – ‘The Ascent of Man’. BBC.

North, Douglass (1973) – ‘The Rise of the Western World’, Cambridge University Press.

Nozick, Robert (1974) – ‘Anarchy, State & Utopia’, Basic Books.

Wilson, E O (1975) - 'Sociobiology, the new synthesis', Harvard University Press.

Becker, Gary (1976) – 'The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour', University of Chicago.

Dawkins, Richard (1976) – ‘The Selfish Gene’, Oxford University Press.

Hill, Christopher (1980) – 'The Century of Revolution', Routledge.

Nisbet, Robert (1980) – ‘History Of The Idea Of Progress’, Heinemann.

Dawkins, Richard (1982) – ‘The Extended Phenotype’, Oxford University Press.

McNeill, William (1982) – ‘The Pursuit of Power’, University of Chicago.

Axelrod, Robert (1984) – ‘The Evolution of Co-operation’, Basic Books.

Braudel, Fernand (1985) – 'Civilisation & Capitalism 15th-18th century', Fontana Press.

Hall, John A (1985) – ‘Powers and Liberties’, Penguin.

Jacobs, Jane (1985) – 'Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life', Random House.

Nelson, Richard R & Winter, Sydney (1985) - 'An Evolutionary Theory of Technical Change', Harvard University Press.

Roberts, John (1985) – ‘The Triumph Of The West’, BBC.

Williamson, Oliver (1985) – ‘The Economic Institutions of Capitalism’, Free Press.

Dawkins, Richard (1986) – ‘The Blind Watchmaker’, Longman.

Rosenberg, Nathan (1986) – ‘How the West Grew Rich’, I B Tauris.

Wood, Michael (1986) – 'Domesday, a search for the roots of England', BBC.

James Gleick (1987) – 'Chaos, Making a New Science', Heinemann.

Hawking, Stephen (1988) – 'A Brief History Of Time', Space Time Publications.

Hayek, Frederick (1988) – ‘The Fatal Conceit’, Routledge.

Briggs, John & Peat, David (1989) – 'Turbulent Mirror', Harper & Row.

Jones, Norman (1989) – 'God and the Money Lenders', Basil Blackwood.

Chandler, Alfred (1990) – ‘Scale & Scope, the Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism’, Belknap Harvard.

Kay, John & King, Mervyn (1990) – 'The British Tax System', Oxford University Press.

Rothschild, Michael L (1990) – 'Bionomics, the Inevitability of Capitalism', Futura.

Kaiser, Christopher (1991) – 'Creation and the History of Science', Eerdmans.

Sunter, Clem (1992) – ‘The New Century, Quest for the High Road’, Human & Rousseau.

Wood, Michael (1992) – ‘In Search of the First Civilisations’, BBC Books.

Adams, Charles (1993) – ‘For Good and Evil, the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilisation’, Madison.

Kauffman, Stuart (1993) – ‘The Origins of Order’, Oxford University Press.

Lewin, Roger (1993) – 'Complexity', Macmillan.

Sagan, Carl (1993) – ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a search for who we are', Arrow Books.

Maidment, Richard (1994) – ‘The United States in the 20th Century, Democracy’, Hodder & Stoughton.

Rosenberg, Nathan (1994) – 'Exploring the Black Box', Cambridge University Press, 1994.

Cziko, Gary (1995) - 'Without Miracles', MIT Press.

Dennett, Daniel (1995) – ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’, Touchstone.

Field, Frank (1995) – 'Making Welfare Work', Institute of Community Studies.

Kelly, Kevin (1995) – ‘Out of Control’, Fourth Estate, London.

Bernstein, Peter (1996) – 'Against the Gods, the remarkable story of risk'', John Wiley.

Epstein and Axtell (1996) – ‘Growing Artificial Societies’, MIT Press.

Fukuyama, Francis (1996) 'Trust, the Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity', Free Press.

Mackintosh, Maureen et al (1996) – 'Economics and Changing Economies', Open University.

Ridley, Matt (1996) – ‘The Origins of Virtue’, Penguin Books.

De Landa, Manuel (1997) - '1000 Years of Non-Linear History'. Zone, New York.

Held, David (1997) – ‘Models of Democracy’, Polity Press.

McGrew, Anthony (1997) – ‘Transformation of Democracy’, Polity Press.

Potter, David (1997) – ‘Democratisation’, Polity Press.

Diamond, Jared (1998) - 'Guns, Germs and Steel', Vintage.

Landes, David (1998) – ‘The Wealth and Poverty of Nations’, Little Brown.

Metcalfe, Stanley (1998) – 'Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction', Routledge.

Wilson, Edward O (1998) – ‘Consilience’, Little Brown.

Blackmore, Susan (1999) – ‘The Meme Machine', Oxford University.

Singer, Peter (1999) - 'Darwinian Left', Yale University Press.

Berg, Maxine,  Cullen, Christopher,  Macfarlane, Alan,  Mokyr, Joel,  Schaffer, Simon (2000) – ‘The Day the World Took Off’, Channel 4.

De Soto, Hernando (2000) – ‘The Mystery of Capital, why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else’, Bantam Press.

Jay, Peter (2000) – ‘The Road to Riches’, Weidenfeld & Nicolson.

Potts, Jason (2000) – ‘The New Evolutionary Economics’, Edward Elgar.

Hanson, Victor Davis (2001) ‘Why the West Has Won’, Faber & Faber.

Streatfield, Philip J (2001) – 'The Paradox of Control in Organisations', Routledge.

Baumol, William J (2002) – ‘The Free Market Innovation Machine, analysing the growth miracle of Capitalism’, Princeton University Press.

McMillan, John (2002) – ‘Reinventing the Bazaar, a Natural History of Markets’, W W Norton.

Morowitz Harold (2002) – ‘The Emergence of Everything’, Oxford University Press.

Pinker, Steven (2002) – ‘The Blank Slate’, Penguin.

Rubin, Paul H (2002) – 'Darwinian Politics', Rutgers University Press.

Corning, Peter (2003) – 'Nature's Magic', Cambridge University Press.

Dennett, Daniel (2003) – ‘Freedom Evolves’, Penguin.

Laurent, John (2003) – ‘Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature’, Edward Elgar.

Posner, |Richard  – ' Law Pragmatism and Democracy', Harvard University Press.

Ridley, Matt (2003) – 'The Agile Gene', Harper Collins.

Shapiro, Ian (2003) – 'The State of Democratic Theory', Princeton University Press.

Dawkins, Richard (2004) – 'The Ancestor's Tale', Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

Dunbar, Robin (2004) – 'The Human Story', Faber & Faber.

Edelman, Gerald M (2004) – 'Wider than the Sky, a revolutionary view of consciousness', Penguin Books.

Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2004) – ‘The Roads to Modernity’, Vintage Books.

Lewis, William W (2004) – 'The Power of Productivity', University of Chicago Press.

Seabright, Paul (2004) – 'The Company of Strangers', Princeton University Press.

Shanks, Niall (2004) – 'God the Devil and Darwin', Oxford University Press.

Wolf, Martin (2004) – 'Why Globalisation Works', Yale University Press.

Dopfer, Kurt (2005) – 'The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics', Cambridge University Press.

Goodhart, Michael (2005) – 'Democracy as Human Rights', Routledge.

Hutchinson, Allan C (2005) – ‘Evolution and the Common Law’, Cambridge University Press.

North, Douglass (2005) – 'Understanding the Process of Economic Change', Princeton University Press.

Richerson, Peter J & Boyd, Robert (2005) – ‘Not by Genes Alone', University of Chicago Press.

Jablonka, Eva (2006) – ‘Evolution in Four Dimensions’, MIT Press

Warsh, David (2006) – 'Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations', W W Norton.

Atkins, Peter (2007) – ‘Four Laws that Drive the Universe’, Oxford University Press.

Beinhocker, Eric (2007) – ‘The Origin of Wealth’, Random House.

Mead, Walter Russell (2007) – ‘God & Gold’, Atlantic Books.

Pinker, Steven (2007) – ‘The Stuff of Thought’, Penguin.

Charan, Ram & Lafley, A G (2008) – ‘The Game Changer’, Profile Books.

Smail, Daniel Lord (2008) – ‘On Deep History and the Brain', University of California Press.  

Smil, Vaclav (2008) – ‘Energy in Nature and Society’, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The evidence mounts. New sources continue to be published confirming, supporting and expanding on the universal relevance of Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics.

john p birchall

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