The evolutionary firm and Cournot's Dilemma

NB Niman - Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Recently, competence/capability has been introduced as a rival and as a complement to the
idea of transaction-costs as the foundation for a modern theory of the firm. However, while …

Sexual selection and economic positioning

NB Niman - Journal of Bioeconomics, 2006 - Springer
In their recent survey of Darwinian aesthetics, Grammer et al.(2003) note the surprising lack
of a connection between studies related to human beauty and the theory of sexual selection …

The concept of organic growth in Marshall's work

NB Niman - Humanity and Nature in Economic Thought, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Marshall intensely wanted to believe that individuals are capable of achieving a moral sense
of chivalry and that social institutions were capable of changing in a manner that would bring …

On the Adaptive Cycle of Transformational Change: A Proposal for a Panarchical Expansion of Escalation Theory

GP Dietl - The Paleontological Society Papers, 2008 - cambridge.org
An outstanding challenge with broad implications for an ecologically sustainable future is to
understand how living systems—whether natural or social—balance opportunity and …