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Anthropology
Durham, William H. (1991). Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversity. Stanford, Stanford University Press.
Sahlins, Marshall D. and Elman Rogers S. (editors). (1960). Evolution and Culture. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
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Business History
Chandler, Alfred D. (1990). Scale and Scope. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
John, Richard R. (1997). Elaborations, Revisions, Dissents: Alfred D. Chandler, Jr's "The Visible Hand" after Twenty Years. Business History Review, 71 (Summer), 151-206. Click on title for full text of the article on eh.net.
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Economics
Bibliography of Evolutionary Modelling in Economics
Hayek, Freidrich (1945). The Use of Knowledge in Society.
Reprinted from the American Economic Review, XXXV, No. 4; September, 1945, 519-30.
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (editor). (1998). The Foundations of Evolutionary Economics, 1890-1973. Northampton, Mass., Edward Elgar. This two volume collection is extremely useful because it pulls together key writings in evolutionary economics and provides commentaries. Click here for a table of contents. In his introductory essay Hodgson gives a very good summary of the history of evolutionary thought in economics.
Hodgson, Geoffrey Martin (2000). Evolution and Institutions: On Evolutionary Economics and the Evolution of Economics. Northampton, Mass., Edward Elgar. Reviewed by Anne Mayhew on eh.net.
Krugman, Paul (1996). What Economists Can Learn from Evolutionary Theorists
A talk given to the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy .
Nelson, Richard R. and Sidney G. Winter (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Cambridge, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This is the seminal work in evolutionary economics and should be the starting point for anyone who wants to get acquainted with evolutionary economics.
Vromen, Jack J. (1995). Economic Evolution: An Enquiry into the Foundations of New Institutional Economics. London and New York, Routledge. This is an superb inquiry into the conceptual foundation of evolutionary economics.
Readings for Complex Adaptive Systems and Agent-Based Computational Economics
Writings of David Hume (A web site with electronic copies of many of his major works)
Writings of Schumpeter (Bibliography in German)
Writings of Adam Smith (web site has searchable electronic copies of many of his major works)
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General History
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History of Evolutionary Thought
Depew, David J. and Bruce H. Weber (1995). Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press. Keywords: Evolution (Biology), Philosophy, History. The books presents a very good overview of the history of evolutionary theory with particular emphasis on Darwin's theory of natural selection. It is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in a philosophically-informed history of evolutionary though.
Museum of Paleontology (UC Berkeley): Exhibit on the History of Evolutionary Thought
Principia Cybernetica Web: Links in the History of Evolution
Sanderson, Stephen K. (1990). Social Evolutionism: A Critical History. Cambridge, Mass. USA, Blackwell. Keywords: Social evolution.
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Law
Cooter, Robert D. and Daniel L. Rubinfeld (1989). "Economic Analysis of Legal Disputes and Their Resolution." Journal of Economic Literature XXVII(September): 1067-1097. (requires access to JSTOR; the evolutionary aspect of the paper is in section D, starting on page 1091)
Elliot, E. Donald (1985). "The Evolutionary Tradition in Jurisprudence." Columbia Law Review 85(January): 38-94.
Hayek, Friedrich A. (1973). Law, Legislation and Liberty, Volume I: Rules and Order. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Reasonable people can disagree with the conclusions that Hayek draws from his evolutionary views of society. But resonable people will agree that Hayek was a great scholar. This book is an intellectual tour the four de force and deserves to be on the bookshelf of everyone who is interested in the relationship between law and economics.
Landes, William M. and Richard A. Posner (1987). The Economic Structure of Tort Law. Cambridge, Harvard University Press. For Review of the book by J. M. Balkin, click here.
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Management and Organization Theory
Baum, Joel A. C. and Bill McKelvey, Eds. (1999). Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage Publications. Click here for a table of contents. This is a very valuable collection of papers on the evolutionary research program in management. The introductory essay by Baum and McKelvey gives a nice overview of evolutionary thought management and organization theory and how Campbell's ideas have influenced management and organization theory scholars.
Baum, Joel A. C. and Jitendra V. Singh, Eds. (1994). The Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations. New York, Oxford University Press. This is a valuable collection of essays by leading evolutionary scholars in management and organization theory.
March, James G. (1994). The Evolution of Evolution. In The Evolutionary Dynamics of Organizations. J. Singh and J. Baum (editors). New York, Oxford University Press: 39-49.
McKelvey, Bill (1982). Organizational Systematics: Taxonomy, Evolution and Classification. Berkeley, CA, University of California Press.
Tushman, Michael L. and Elaine Romanelli (1985). Organizational Evolution: A Metamorphosis Model of Convergence and Reorientation. Research in Organizational Behavior. L. Cummings and B. Staw. Greenwich, CT, Jai Press. 7: 171-222.
Weick, Karl E. (1979). The Social Psychology of Organizing. Reading, Mass., Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
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Political Science
Axelrod, Robert M. (1984). The Evolution of Cooperation. New York, Basic Books. Keywords: Cooperativenes, Games of strategy (Mathematics), Conflict management, Egoism, Consensus, Social interaction. This is the classic game-theoretic treatment of the evolution of cooperation.
Axelrod, Robert M. (1997). The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-based Models of Competition and Collaboration. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press. Keywords: Cooperativeness, Competition, Conflict management, Adaptability (Psychology), Adjustment (Psychology), Computational complexity, Social systems Computer simulation.
EvolutionaryWorld Politics Web
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Psychology
Campbell, D. T. (1960). "Blind Variation and Selective Retention in Creative Thought as in Other Thought Processes." Psychological Review 67: 380-400.
Donald, Merlin (1991). Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press. Keywords: Cognition and culture, Neuropsychology, Cognition, Intellect History.
Plotkin, Henry (1997). Evolution in Mind: An Introduction to Evolutionary Psychology. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Principia Cybernetica Web: Links in Evolutionary Psychology
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Sociology
Aldrich, Howard E. (1979). Organizations and Environments. Englewoods Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall.
Hannan, M. and J. Freeman (1989). Organizational Ecology. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press.
Hawley, Amos (1950). Human Ecology: Theory of Community Structure. New York, Ronald Press.
Langton, John. (1984). "The Ecological Theory of Bureaucracy: The Case of Josiah Wedgwood and the British Pottery Industry." Administrative Science Quarterly 29(3): 330-354. This is a spectacular paper spelling out the causal mechanisms that would explain the rise of bureaucracy in modern societies. Max Weber has found his evolutionary theorist in John Langton.
Sanderson, Stephen K. (1995). Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development. Cambridge, Mass., Blackwell. Keywords: Social evolution, Economic anthropology, Capitalism.
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Arthur, Brian (1998). Thoughts on Inreasing Returns, Technological Lock-in, and Path-Dependence. Interview published in PreText Magazine. This is a very good introduction to the issues.
Balwin, Carliss and Kim Clark (2000). Design Rules, Vol.1: The Power of Modularity. Cambridge, MIT Press. This is the single most valuable book connecting technological evolution and industrial change. It's strength derives from the deep empirical knowledge how computer technology developed and the innovative use of design and finance theory to understand how innovative activity shifts over time with profound implications for where value is created in the industrial landscape.
Basalla, George (1988). The Evolution of Technology. New York, Cambridge University Press.
Constant, Edward W. T. II (1980). The Origins of the Turbojet Revolution. Baltimore, The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Petroski, H. (1992). The Evolution of Useful Things. New York, Alfred Knopf.
Vincenti, Walter (1990). What Engineers Know and How They Know It. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press. This is the single most valuable book on technological evolution. It formulates an evolutionary epistemology of how engineers knowledge grows.
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Linguistics
Croft, William. 2000. Explaining Language Change: An Evolutionary Approach. Harlow, Essex: Longman. This book develops and account of language change using modern evolutionary ideas in the tradition of Hull and others. It is a very good starting point getting an up-to date overview of evolutionary arguments in linguistics.
Naumann, Bernd, Frans Plank and Gottfried Hofbauer, Eds. (1992). Language and Earth: Effective Affinities between the Emerging Sciences of Linguistics and Geology. Philadelphia, J. Benjamins Publ. Co. This edited volume contains 17 essays that compare the intellectual developments in linguistics and geology in the 19th century.
Schleicher, August (1983). [1850]. Die Sprachen Europas in Systematischer Übersicht: Linguistische Untersuchungen. With a new introductory article by Konrad Koerner. Philadelphia, John Benjamins Publ. Co. Provides an overview of the early connections between evolutionary thought in linguistics and biology before Darwin published his On the Origin of Species, 1859.
Schleicher, August, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel and W. H. I. Bleek (1983). [1863, 1865, 1867]. Linguistics and Evolutionary Theory: Three Essays. With an introduction by J. Peter Maher. Philadelphia, J. Benjamins. Three essays by Schleicher, Bleek and Haeckel protray the early reactions in linguistics to the ideas of Darwin.
Taub, Liba (1993). "Evolutionary Ideas and 'Empirical' Methods: The Analogy Between Language and Species in the Works of Lyell and Schleicher." British Journal for the History of Science 26(171-193).
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Natural Sciences
Darwin, Charles (1964). [1859]. On the Origin of Species. A Facsimile of the First Edition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press.
Eldredge, Niles (1985). Unfinished Synthesis: Biological Hierarchies and Modern Evolutionary Thought. New York, Oxford University Press.
Eldredge, Niles (1995). Reinventing Darwin: The Great Debate at the High Table of Evolutionary Theory. New York, John Wiley & Sons. The author lays out forcefully the debate between reductionists who strive to reduce all biological phenomena to competition between genes for reproductive success (the so-called ultra-Darwinians) and non-reductionists who argue that each level in the hierarchical organization of life should be studied in its own right. Another fundamental issue in the debate is whether evolution is gradual or punctuated by radical discontinuities.
Eldredge, Niles (1999). The Pattern of Evolution. New York, W. H. Freeman and Company.
Gould, Steven Jay (1977). Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York, W. W. Norton & Company.
Gould, Steven Jay (1980). The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. New York, W. W. Norton & Company.
Gould, Steven J. and Niles Eldredge (1977). "Punctuated Equilibria: the Tempo and Mode of Evolution Reconsidered." Paleobiology 3: 115-15
1.Lefalophodon: A History of Evolutionary Biology Web Site
Sober, Elliot, Ed. (1994). Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology. A Bradford Book. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press. This edited volume contains a superb collection of essays by leading biologists and philosopers of science.
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Philosophy
Dennett, Daniel Clement (1995). Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life. Simon & Schuster. Keywords: Natural selection, Philosophy of Biological Evolution, Philosophy of Human Evolution.
| Review of "Darwin's Dangerous Idea" by Steven Jay Gould in New York Review of Books, Part 1 | ||
| Part 2 | Reply by Dennett | Entry by Pinker |
Depew, David J. and Bruce H. Weber (1995). Darwinism Evolving: Systems Dynamics and the Genealogy of Natural Selection. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press. Keywords: Evolution (Biology), Philosophy, History. The books presents a very good overview of the history of evolutionary theory with particular emphasis on Darwin's theory of natural selection. It is an excellent starting point for anyone interested in a philosophically-informed history of evolutionary though.
Hull, David L. (1973). Darwin and his Critics; The Reception of Darwin's Theory of Evolution by the Scientific Community. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
Hull, David L. (1988). Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science. Chicago, University of Chicago Press. Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is the most widely read and cited book in the philosophy and sociology of science. If you want an philosophical foundation for an evolutionary view, this is the book you should read and not Kuhn. Hull delivers not only a philosophical foundation for evolutionary theories in the social sciences, but he also provides a wonderful case study of how a school of thought in the world of biological taxonomy won the competition among alternative approaches.
Hull, David L. (1989). The Metaphysics of Evolution. Albany, State University of New York Press.
Principia Cybernetica Web: Links in Evolutionary Philosophy and Theory
Sober, Elliott (1984). The Nature of Selection: Evolutionary Theory in Philosophical Focus. Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press. Keywords: Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Evolution, Philosophy of Biological Evolution.
Wilson, Edward O. (1998). The Biological Basis of Morality. Atlantic Monthly, April Issue. The famous biologist ventures into moral philosophy.
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TDA (Transition Data Analysis) Software
Connected Mathematics: Making Sense of Complex Phenomena Through Building Computational Models.
Here you download for free the StarLogoT simulation tools and soon the more advanced and even easier to use NetLogo tool that will run on any computer platform. Both programming tools are simulation environments for modeling complex systems composed of interacting individuals.
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OtherGeneral Bibliographies on the Web
CogWeb Bibliography
Essentialsof Evolutionary Thought in the Social Sciences. An annotatedbibliography published on the EvolutionaryWorld Politics web.
KLITheory Lab on Evolution and Cognition. Asearchable database of literature related to the wider domain of evolution andcognition published by the Konrad Lorenz Institute.
OrganizationalEcology Literature. Asearchable database of literature related to organizational ecology literaturehosted by Glenn Carroll and Mike Hannan.
SELECTIONTHEORY BIBLIOGRAPHY by Gary A. Cziko and Donald T. Campbell (1916-1996)
Socio.ChOnline Publications on Social and Cultural Evolution
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