Evolutionary Economics - Bibliography

John Locke (1689) - 'Two Treatise on Government'

Adam Smith (1759) - 'The theory of Moral Sentiments'

Adam Smith (1776) -  'The Wealth of Nations'

Charles MacKay (1841) – 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds'.

John Stuart Mill (1859) – 'On Liberty'.

Walter Bagehot (1873) – 'Lombard Street'.

Joseph Schumpeter (1943) – 'Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy'

Charles Tiebout, (1956) – 'A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures', Journal of Political Economy.

J K Galbraith (1958) – 'The Affluent Society'

Thomas Kuhn (1962) – ‘The Structure of Scientific Revolutions'

William McNeill (1963) – ‘The Rise of the West’

Abraham Maslow (1964) – 'Motivation and Personality'

James Buchanan & Gordon Tullock (1965) – ‘The Calculus of Consent’

John Hicks (1969) – ‘A Theory of Economic History'

Peter Mathias (1969) – ‘The First Industrial Nation, an economic history of Britain 1700-1914’

Edward De Bono (1970) – ‘Lateral thinking, a textbook of creativity’

Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (1971) – 'The Entropy Law and the Economic Process'

Jacob Bronowski (1973) – ‘The Ascent of Man..

Douglass North (1973) – ‘The Rise of the Western World’

Robert Nozick (1974) – ‘Anarchy, State & Utopia’

Hyman Minsky (1975) – 'John Maynard Keynes'

E O Wilson (1975) – 'Sociobiology, the new synthesis'

Gary Becker (1976) – 'The Economic Approach to Human Behaviour'

Richard Dawkins (1976) – ‘The Selfish Gene’

Christopher Hill (1980) – 'The Century of Revolution'

Robert Nisbet (1980) – ‘History Of The Idea Of Progress’

Peter  Thomas Bouer (2081) – 'Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion'

Richard Dawkins (1982) – ‘The Extended Phenotype’

William McNeill (1982) – ‘The Pursuit of Power’,

Robert Axelrod (1984) – ‘The Evolution of Co-operation’.

Fernand Braudel (1985) – 'Civilisation & Capitalism 15th-18th century'

John A Hall (1985) – ‘Powers and Liberties’

Jane Jacobs (1985) – 'Cities and the Wealth of Nations: Principles of Economic Life'

Richard R Nelson & Sydney Winter (1985) - 'An Evolutionary Theory of Technical Change'

John Roberts (1985) – ‘The Triumph Of The West’

Oliver Williamson (1985) – ‘The Economic Institutions of Capitalism’

Richard Dawkins (1986) – ‘The Blind Watchmaker’

Nathan Rosenberg (1986) – ‘How the West Grew Rich’

Michael Wood (1986) – 'Domesday, a search for the roots of England'

James Gleick (1987) – 'Chaos, Making a New Science'

Len Hardy (1987) - 'Successful Business Strategy'

Stephen Hawking (1988) – 'A Brief History Of Time'.

Frederick Hayek (1988) – ‘The Fatal Conceit’

John Briggs & David Peat (1989) – 'Turbulent Mirror'

Norman Jones (1989) – 'God and the Money Lenders'

Paul M Romer (1990) - 'Endogenous Technological Change'

Alfred Chandler (1990) – ‘Scale & Scope, the Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism’

John Kay & Mervyn King (1990) – 'The British Tax System'

Michael L Rothschild (1990) – 'Bionomics, the Inevitability of Capitalism'

Christopher Kaiser (1991) – 'Creation and the History of Science'.

Clem Sunter (1992) – ‘The New Century, Quest for the High Road'

Michael Wood (1992) – ‘In Search of the First Civilisations’

Charles Adams (1993) – ‘For Good and Evil, the Impact of Taxes on the Course of Civilisation’

Stuart Kauffman (1993) – ‘The Origins of Order'

Roger Lewin (1993) – 'Complexity'

Carl Sagan (1993) – ‘Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a search for who we are'

Richard Maidment (1994) – ‘The United States in the 20th Century, Democracy’

Nathan Rosenberg (1994) – 'Exploring the Black Box'

Gary Cziko (1995) - 'Without Miracles'

Daniel Dennett (1995) – ‘Darwin’s Dangerous Idea’

Frank Field (1995) – 'Making Welfare Work'

Kevin Kelly (1995) – ‘Out of Control’

Frank Field (1996) - 'Stakeholder Welfare'

Peter Bernstein (1996) – 'Against the Gods, the remarkable story of risk'

Epstein and Axtell (1996) – ‘Growing Artificial Societies'

Francis Fukuyama (1996) 'Trust, the Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity'

Maureen Mackintosh et al (1996) – 'Economics and Changing Economies'

Matt Ridley (1996) – ‘The Origins of Virtue’

Manuel De Landa (1997) - '1000 Years of Non-Linear History'

David Held (1997) – ‘Models of Democracy’

Anthony McGrew (1997) – ‘Transformation of Democracy’

David Potter (1997) – ‘Democratisation’

Jared Diamond (1998) - 'Guns, Germs and Steel'

David Landes (1998) – ‘The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: why some are so rich & some so poor’

Stanley Metcalfe (1998) – 'Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction'

Edward O Wilson (1998) – ‘Consilience’

Edward O Wilson (1998) –  'The Biological Basis of Morality'

Larry Arnhart (1998) – 'Darwinian Natural Right: The Biological Ethics of Human Nature' 

Martin Rees (1999) – 'Just Six Numbers: the deep forces that shape the universe' 

Susan Blackmore (1999) – ‘The Meme Machine'

Peter Singer (1999) - 'Darwinian Left'

Ashok Ganguly (1999) - 'Business-Driven Research & Development: Managing Knowledge to Create Wealth'

Maxine Berg, Christopher Cullen, Alan Macfarlane, Joel  Mokyr & Simon Schaffer (2000) – ‘The Day the World Took Off’

Hernando De Soto (2000) – ‘The Mystery of Capital, why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else’

Peter Jay (2000) – ‘The Road to Riches’

Jason Potts (2000) – ‘The New Evolutionary Economics’

Victor Davis Hanson (2001) ‘Why the West Has Won’

Philip J Streatfield (2001) – 'The Paradox of Control in Organisations'

Robert Wright (2001) - 'Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny'.

William J Baumol (2002) – ‘The Free Market Innovation Machine, analysing the growth miracle of Capitalism’

John McMillan (2002) – ‘Reinventing the Bazaar, a Natural History of Markets’

Harold Morowitz (2002) – ‘The Emergence of Everything’

Steven Pinker (2002) – ‘The Blank Slate’

Paul H Rubin (2002) – 'Darwinian Politics'  

Malcolm Gladwell (2002) - 'The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference'  

Peter Corning (2003) – 'Nature's Magic'

Daniel Dennett (2003) – ‘Freedom Evolves’

John Laurent (2003) – ‘Evolutionary Economics and Human Nature’

Ann Lyon (2003) – 'Constitutional History of the United Kingdom'

Richard  Posner (2003)  – ' Law Pragmatism and Democracy'

Matt Ridley (2003) – 'The Agile Gene'

Ian Shapiro (2003) – 'The State of Democratic Theory'

Jenny Uglow (2003) - 'The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future 1730-1810', 

Danny Danzinger & John Gillingham (2003) - '1215: the year of Magna Carta'

Richard Dawkins (2004) – 'The Ancestor's Tale'.

Robin Dunbar (2004) – 'The Human Story'

Gerald M Edelman (2004) – 'Wider than the Sky, a revolutionary view of consciousness'

Gertrude Himmelfarb (2004) – ‘The Roads to Modernity’

William W Lewis (2004) – 'The Power of Productivity'

Paul Seabright (2004) – 'The Company of Strangers'

Niall Shanks (2004) – 'God the Devil and Darwin'

Martin Wolf (2004) – 'Why Globalisation Works'

Kurt Dopfer (2005) – 'The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics'

Michael Goodhart (2005) – 'Democracy as Human Rights'

Allan C Hutchinson (2005) – ‘Evolution and the Common Law’

Douglass North (2005) – 'Understanding the Process of Economic Change'

Peter Richerson & Robert Boyd (2005) – ‘Not by Genes Alone'

Nava Ashraf, Colin F Camerer & George Loewenstein (2005) - 'Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist', Journal of Economic Perspectives.

Gavin Kennedy (2005) - 'Adam Smith's Lost Legacy'

Paolo Di Martino (2005) - 'The Historical Evolution of Bankruptcy Law in England, the US and Italy up to 1939: Determinants of Institutional Change and Structural Differences'

Eva Jablonka (2006) – ‘Evolution in Four Dimensions'

David Warsh (2006) – 'Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations'

Peter Atkins (2007) – ‘Four Laws that Drive the Universe’

Eric Beinhocker (2007) – ‘The Origin of Wealth’

Walter Russell Mead (2007) – ‘God & Gold’

Steven Pinker (2007) – ‘The Stuff of Thought’

William Bernstein (2007) - 'A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World'

Steve Jones (2008) - 'Darwin's Island'

Ram Charan & A G Lafley (2008) – ‘The Game Changer’

Daniel Lord Smail (2008) – ‘On Deep History and the Brain' 

Vaclav Smil (2008) – ‘Energy in Nature and Society’

Ben Wubs (2008) - 'Unilever’s Struggle for Control: An Anglo-Dutch Multinational under German Occupation'

Richard Thaler (2008) - 'Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth & Happiness'.

Richard Dawkins (2009) – 'The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution'

Robert Wright (2009) - 'The Evolution of God'

Carmen M Reinhart, Kenneth Rogoff (2009) - 'This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly'

Geoffrey Hodgson & Thorbjorn Knudsen (2010) - 'Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution'

John Searle (2010) - 'Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization'

Nicholas Phillipson (2011) - 'Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life'

Peter Singer (2011) - 'The Expanding Circle'

Philip Coggan (2011) - 'Paper Promises: Money Debt & World Order'

Daniel Kahneman (2011) - 'Thinking Fast and Slow'

Steven Pinker (2011) - 'The Better Angels of Our Nature: A History of Violence and Humanity'

Thomas Sedlacek (2011) - 'The Economics of Good and Evil: The Quest for Economic Meaning, from Gilgamesh to Wall Street' 

Jorg Guido Hulsmann (2011) - 'The Ethics of Money Production'

Sam Harris (2011) - 'The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values'

Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2012) - 'Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder'

Mark Pagel (2012) - 'Wired for Culture: The Natural History of Human Cooperation'

Ilya Somin (2012) - 'Foot Voting, Federalism & Political Freedom' 

Geoffrey M Hodgson (2012) - 'From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities: An Evolutionary Economics without Homo Economicus'

Daron Acemoglu, James A Robinson (2012) - 'Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty'

David Jones (2012) 'Who Cares Wins: Why Good Business is Better Business'

Edmund Phelps (2013) - 'Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change'

Herbert Gintis & Samuel Bowles (2013) - 'A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution'

Craig Venter (2013) - ' Life at the Speed of Light: From the Double Helix to the Dawn of Digital Life'

Richard Epstein (2014) - 'The Classical Liberal Constitution: the uncertain quest for limited government'

Tom Burgis (2015) - 'The Looting Machine'

Sarah Chayes (2015) - 'Thieves of State'

César Hidalgo (2015) - 'Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies'

David Eagleman (2015) - 'The Brain: the story of you,'

David Wooton (2015) - 'The Invention of Science: A New History of the Scientific Revolution'

John O Campbell (2015) - 'Darwin Does Physics'

Peter Turchin (2015) - 'Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth'  

Mervyn King (2016) - 'The End of Alchemy: Money, Banking & the Future of the Global Economy'

Matt Ridley (2016) - 'The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge'

Geoffrey West (2017) - 'Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies' 

Daniel Dennett (2017) - 'From Bacteria to Bach and Back: the Evolution of Minds'

Niall Ferguson (2017) - 'The Square & the Tower - Networks, Hierarchies & the Struggle for Global Power'

Andrew Lo (2017) - 'Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought'

Steven Pinker (2018) - 'Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress' 

Jesse Norman (2018) - 'Adam Smith: What He Thought, and Why it Matters' 

Dharshini David (2018) - 'The Almighty Dollar: Follow the Incredible Journey of Single Dollar to See How the Global Economy Really Works'   

Matt Ridley (2020) - 'How Innovation Works'  

Mervyn King & John Kay (2020) - 'Radical Uncertainty: Decision Making for an Unknowable Future'   

Richard H Thaler & Cass R Sunstein (2021) - 'Nudge: The Final Edition' 

Mark Carney (2021) - 'Value(s): Building a Better World for All' 

 

The evidence mounts. New sources continue to be published confirming, supporting and expanding on the universal relevance of Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics.

john p birchall

back to evolutionary economics