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Review of Evolutionary Political Economy - Call for Papers - Special Issue: "Coevolution and Dynamic Processes"

Guest Editors


Motivation
Coevolution in economic systems has been recently defined, in a formal way, as a type of process in which several evolving populations within a complex system causally influence each other, in such a way that the multi-directional influences shape their respective innovation/variation, replication and/or selection processes. In this way, the multiple evolving populations linked by coevolution become dynamically co-determined (Almudi and Fatas-Villafranca, 2022; 2021).

Clearly, this notion builds upon the evolutionary economic paradigm focused on representing contemporary societies as evolving systems (see, for example, Nelson and Winter, 1982; Metcalfe, 1998; Foster and Metcalfe, 2001; Witt, 2003; Nelson, 2005; 2018) in the general sense that these systems continuously change from within, through processes which involve the selection of heterogeneous (boundedly-rational) competing organizations and agents, the uneven replication of embodied traits (routines, habits), and the ongoing generation of novelties.

Although the aforementioned definition focuses on the specific needed conditions for coevolution processes to occur, the importance of coevolution in explaining dynamic processes has been pointed out by a wide variety of authors who have approached the coevolution phenomenon from very different evolutionary perspectives (hayekian, post- keynesian, veblenian, institutionalism, neo-schumpeterian, historicist school, evolutionary-naturalistic approach and complexity economics). These approaches have covered up a vast type of socio-economic and nature-based dynamic processes (see, for example, Gowdy, 1994; Dosi and Coriat, 1998; McKelvey and Baum, 1999; Nelson, 2001; Van den Berg and Stagl, 2003; Murmann, 2003; 2013; Dopfer and Potts, 2008; Dosi and Roventini, 2019; Gual and Norgaard, 2010; Freeman, 2019, Hanappi, 2020 and Liu et al., 2021). This rich variety of approaches highlights the importance of understanding how coevolution processes are linked to structural changes observed at multiple levels in social systems of all kind (economic, cultural, natural, societal, philosophical). To explore this variety of possibilities is the objective of this special issue.

Therefore, in this call we invite to submit contributions from different fields of knowledge (economics, philosophy of science, history of technology, biology, sociology, political science), as long as those papers deal with the coevolution phenomenon under any of the evolutionary approaches mentioned before (hayekian, post- keynesian, veblenian, institutionalism, neo-schumpeterian, historicist school, evolutionary-naturalistic approach and complexity economics). Specifically, we are inviting papers analysing dynamic processes focussed on the coevolution mechanisms involved. All types of methodologies, from heuristics, philosophy and history to dynamic mathematical models (ABMs, simulation models, complex networks), are welcome.

REPE supports ‘online first publishing’. Papers will be published online upon acceptance after having been peer-reviewed by 2-3 independent reviewers, which may be earlier than the publication date of the full issue.

All selected contributions will go through a full peer review process according to the usual standards of REPE.
 

Timeline

  • 1st September, 2023: Extended abstract (~1500 words) via email to guest editors (Please send abstract to: ialmudi@unizar.es (this opens in a new tab))
  • 30th September, 2023: Notification of acceptance by guest Editors.
  • 30th June, 2024: Invited papers must be submitted via REPE’s online submission system for peer review
  • 30th September, 2024: End of the review process.
  • 30th October, 2024: Final version of the papers must be submitted.
  • End of 2024: Publication of the SI (issue 3-2024, Dec 2024)


References
  Almudi, I. and Fatas-Villafranca, F. (2022). Coevolution (in innovative economic systems). The Elgar Encyclopedia on the Economics of Knowledge and Innovation. Antonelli, C. (Editor). Edward Elgar.
  Almudi, I. and Fatas-Villafranca, F. (2021). Coevolution in Economic Systems. Elements in Evolutionary Economics. Potts, J. and Foster, J. (Editors). Cambridge University Press.
  Dopfer, K. and Potts, J. (2008). The General Theory of Economic Evolution. Routledge.
  Dosi, G. and Roventini, A. (2019). More is different and complex! The case for agent-based macroeconomics. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 29, 1-37.
  Dosi, G. and Coriat, B. (1998). Learning how to Govern and Learning how to solve problems: On the Coevolution of competences, conflicts and routines. In Chandler A. et al. (Editors). The Dynamic Firm. Oxford University Press.
  Foster J. and Metcalfe J.S. (eds) (2001). Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics. Edward Elgar.
  Freeman, C. (2019). History, co-evolution and economic growth. Industrial and Corporate Change, 28(1), 1-44.
  Gowdy, J. (1994), Coevolutionary Economics: The Economy, Society and the Environment. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
  Gual, M. A. and Norgaard, R. B. (2010). Bridging ecological and social systems coevolution: A review and proposal. Ecological economics, 69(4), 707-717.
  Hanappi, H. (2020). Perplexing complexity, human modelling and primacy of the group as essence of complexity. Review of Evolutionary Political Economy 1, 397–417
  Liu, X., Yang, N., Li, L., and Liu, Y. (2021). Co-evolution of emerging economy MNEs and institutions: A literature review. International Business Review, 30(4), 101828.
  McKelvey, B. and Baum, J. A. C. (1999). Donald T. Campbell’s Evolving Influence on Organization Science. In J. A. C. Baum and B. McKelvey (Editors). Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell, 1-15.
  Metcalfe, J.S (1998). Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction. Routledge.
  Murmann J.P. (2013). The Coevolution of Industries and Important Features of Their Environments. Organization Science, 24 (1), 58–7
  Murmann J.P. (2003). Knowledge and competitive advantage: the coevolution of firms, technology, and national institutions. Cambridge University Press.
  Nelson, R.R. (2005). Perspectives on Technological Evolution. In Dopfer, K. et al. (Editors). The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics. Cambridge University Press.
  Nelson, R. R. (2001). The coevolution of technology and institutions as the driver of economic growth. Frontiers of Evolutionary Economics, 19-40.
  Nelson, R.R. (2018). Modern Evolutionary Economics. Cambridge University Press.
  Nelson, R.R. and Winter, S.G. (1982). An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change. Harvard University Press.
  Van den Bergh, J. C. and Stagl, S. (2003). Coevolution of economic behaviour and institutions: towards a theory of institutional change. Journal of Evolutionary Economics, 13, 289-317.
  Witt, U. (2003). The Evolving Economy. Edward Elgar.


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