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The Economics of Order and Disorder: The Market as Organizer and Creator

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  • Lesourne, Jacques

    (Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris; Chairman and Managing Director of Le Monde)

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This book addresses some basic questions in economics, all of which have a common core - they all refer to forming behaviour, to the emergence of order, its adaptation, its transformation, and its ultimate dissolution into chaos. Starting with the notion of self-organization, the author analyses the operation and the demise of institutions in economics. In doing so, he takes into account the consequences of the intervention of history, chance, necessity, and will - a subject little undertaken in contemporary economic theory. Starting with the theory of microeconomics itself, the author builds precise models based on explicit hypotheses and draws out the significance of the propositions obtained. The book draws on systems theory, evolutionary theory, the literature on institutional economics, and existing general equilibrium theory, and steps outside the present conceptual framework of microeconomics.

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  • Lesourne, Jacques, 1992. "The Economics of Order and Disorder: The Market as Organizer and Creator," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198287391.
    • Handle: RePEc:oxp:obooks:9780198287391
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    Cited by:

    1. Michel Beine & Agnès Bénassy-Quéré & Hélène Colas, 2003. "Imitation Amongst Exchange-Rate Forecasters: Evidence from Survey Data," Working Papers 2003-08, CEPII research center.
    2. Denis Phan, 2004. "From Agent-Based Computational Economics towards Cognitive Economics," Post-Print halshs-03916500, HAL.
    3. Cassey Lee, 2004. "Emergence and Universal Computation," Metroeconomica, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(2‐3), pages 219-238, May.
    4. Paul Davidson, 1996. "Reality and Economic Theory," Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(4), pages 479-508, July.
    5. Witt, Ulrich, 1997. "Self-organization and economics--what is new?," Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Elsevier, vol. 8(4), pages 489-507, October.

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