Overview
- Combines memetics and evolutionary economics
- Shows how network science and agent-based modeling can be used to analyze memes
- Offers suggestions for future research
Part of the book series: Economic Complexity and Evolution (ECAE)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book explores the question of whether and how meme theory or “memetics” can be fruitfully utilized in evolutionary economics and proposes an approach known as “economemetics” which is a combination of meme theory and complexity theory that has the potential to combat the fragmentation of evolutionary economics while re-connecting the field with cultural evolutionary theory. By studying the intersection of cultural and economic evolution, complexity economics, computational economics, and network science, the authors establish a connection between memetics and evolutionary economics at different levels of investigation.
The book first demonstrates how a memetic approach to economic evolution can help to reveal links and build bridges between different but complementary concepts in evolutionary economics. Secondly, it shows how organizational memetics can help to capture the complexity of organizational culture using meme mapping. Thirdly, it presents an agent-based simulation model of knowledge diffusion and assimilation in innovation networks from a memetic perspective. The authors then use agent-based modeling and social network analysis to evaluate the diffusion pattern of the Ice Bucket Challenge as an example of a “viral meme.” Lastly, the book discusses the central issues of agency, creativity, and normativity in the context of economemetics and suggests promising avenues for further research.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Michael P. Schlaile (ORCID 0000-0002-9269-0306) has been a Research Associate at the Department of Innovation Economics at the University of Hohenheim (Germany) since November 2016. From 2012 to 2016, Michael was a member of the scientific staff at the Department of Business Ethics. In early 2018, he also became an external Fellow at the Center for Applied Cultural Evolution in Eugene, OR, USA. Michael’s research focuses on responsibility and the interplay of cultural and economic evolution in complex socio-economic systems. He has published in various journals, such as Cognitive Systems Research, the International Journal of Computational Economics and Econometrics, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Philosophy of Management, and Sustainability.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Memetics and Evolutionary Economics
Book Subtitle: To Boldly Go Where no Meme has Gone Before
Editors: Michael P. Schlaile
Series Title: Economic Complexity and Evolution
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59955-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59954-6Published: 22 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-59957-7Published: 23 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-59955-3Published: 21 December 2020
Series ISSN: 2199-3173
Series E-ISSN: 2199-3181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 205
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Heterodox Economics, Complex Systems