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Spontaneous Order: How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up

Spontaneous Order: How Norms, Institutions, and Innovations Emerge from the Bottom Up

Young, H. Peyton

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EconomicsInvesting & FinanceGeneral Mathematics

ISBN10: 019889290X
ISBN13: 9780198892908
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 19 2024
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.72
Height: 1.21 Width: 6.47 Depth: 9.33
Language: English
Spontaneous Order brings together Peyton Young's research on evolutionary game theory and its diverse applications across a wide range of academic disciplines, including economics, sociology, philosophy, biology, computer science, and engineering. Enhanced with an introductory essay and commentaries, the book pulls together the author's work thematically to provide a valuable resource for scholars of economic theory.

Young argues that equilibrium behaviors often coalesce from the interactions and experiences of many dispersed individuals acting with fragmentary knowledge of the world, rather than (as is often assumed in economics) from the actions of fully rational agents with commonly held beliefs. The author presents a unified and rigorous account of how such 'bottom-up' evolutionary processes work, using recent advances in stochastic dynamical systems theory. This analytical framework illuminates how social norms and institutions evolve, how social and technical innovations spread in society, and how these processes depend on adaptive learning behavior by human subjects.

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