HP_906 Instituce, evoluce a hospodářská politika
Institutions, Evolutions, and Economic Policies
Pavel Pelikan
professor of economics attached to KIE-VSE, formerly professor at the University of Toronto, Stockholms Universitet, and Université de Paris 1 – Sorbonne
The course will examine how the relatively new fields of institutional, evolutionary, and cognitive economics can help to answer fundamental policy questions. Each of these fields will be introduced with references to its basic texts, and their interconnections and applications to policy issues will be based on the lecturer’s own research. This will be open to debate and criticism.
The course will not advocate any specific ideology, but will strive to use value-free analysis for assessing different ideologies and their favorite policies (or absence of policies) according to their chances of success in the evolution of human economies and societies.
Prof. Pavel Pelikan papers (*.pdf)
- The Government Economic Agenda in a Society of Unequally Rational Individuals, November 2008, PDF
- The economic roles of government: ideological preferences versus evolutionary constraints, April 2008, Preliminary, PDF
- Variably Self-Organized Interactors with Relatively Stable Instruction Bases: How to Generalize Darwinism for Fruitful Socioeconomic Applications, December 2007, 3rd revision, PDF
- Public Choice with Unequally Rational Individuals: Implications for Economic Analysis of Governments, May 2007, 2nd revision, PDF
Texts (*.doc)
- Readings
- Pelikan, Pavel: Bringing institutions into evolutionary economics: another view with links to changes in physical and social technologies
- Pelikan, Pavel: Choice, chance and necessity in the evolution of forms of economies
- Pelikan, Pavel: Genomic Instructing and Doubly Instructed Self-Organizing: How the Genotype-Phenotype Distinction May Help Students of Economies and Societies
- Pelikan, Pavel: INTERCONNECTING EVOLUTIONARY, INSTITUTIONAL AND COGNITIVE ECONOMICS: Six Steps towards Understanding the Six Links
- Vanberg, Viktor, J.: Rational Choice, Preferences over Actions and Rule-Following Behavior
- Pelikan, Pavel: Why Economic Policies Need Comprehensive Evolutionary Analysis