The Microeconomics of Complex Economies

<p>Part I: Basics of the Interdependent Economy and Its Processes1. Introduction to the Microeconomics of Complex Economies2. Tools I: An Introduction to Game Theory3. Problem Structures and Processes in Complex Economies 4. Approaching Real-World Interdependence and Complexity: Empirical Phenomena in the Global Economy </p> <p>Part II: Markets: General-Equilibrium Theory and Real-World Market Structures 5. The Ideal Neoclassical Market and General Equilibrium6. Critiques of the Neoclassical “Perfect Market” Economy and Alternative Price Theories7. Real-World Markets: Hierarchy, Size, Power, and Oligopoly, Direct Interdependence and Instability </p> <p>Part III: Further Tools and the Analysis of Complex Economies 8. Tools II: More Formal Concepts of Game Theory and Evolutionary Game Theory9. Tools III: An Introduction to Simulation and Agent-Based Modeling10. A Universe of Economies: Interdependence and Complexity, System Trajectories, Chaos, and Self-Organization11. Dynamics, Complexity, Evolution, and Emergence—The Roles of Game Theory and Simulation Methods</p> <p>Part IV: History of Thought and Contemporary Models in Complexity Economics12. Themes of Complexity in the History of Economic Thought: Glimpses at A. Smith, T.B. Veblen, J.A. Schumpeter, and Others 13. Recent Core Models of Complexity Microeconomics14. The Size Dimension of Complex Economies—Towards a Meso-Economics: The Size of Interaction Arenas and the Emergence of Meso-Platforms of Institutional Coordination </p> <p>Part V: Further Applications: Information, Innovation, Policy, and Methodology15. The Information Economy and the Open-Source Principle16. Networks and Innovation—The Networked Firm, Innovation Systems, and Varieties of Capitalism 17. Policy Implications: New Policy Perspectives for Private Agents, Networks, Network Consultants, and Public Policy Agencies18. How to Deal with Knowledge of Complexity Microeconomics: Theories, Empirics, Applications, and Actions </p>