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The incomplete Schumpeter Stockholm School connection

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During the early post WWII years Walrasian minded static equilibrium economists managed to disconnect a promising merge of Schumpeterian and Swedish School economics, and for decades more or less block the development of evolutionary dynamics. This paper is a fresh start of what should then have been done. I link my discussion to Loasby’s ( 1998 ) two forms of coordination failure of; (1) failure of economists to model the coordination of an economy “out of equilibrium” and (2) failure of economists of competing schools to understand and benefit from each other. I find that 2 may explain 1. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

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  • Gunnar Eliasson, 2015. "The incomplete Schumpeter Stockholm School connection," Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Springer, vol. 25(1), pages 45-56, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joevec:v:25:y:2015:i:1:p:45-56
    DOI: 10.1007/s00191-014-0372-6
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    Keywords

    Economic coordination; Economic mistakes; Evolutionary economics; Ex ante/Ex post; Experimentally organized economy; Ignorance; Information economics; Micro based macro modeling; B00; D20; D40; D50; D80; L16; M13;
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    • B00 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - General - - - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches
    • D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
    • D40 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - General
    • D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
    • D80 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - General
    • L16 - Industrial Organization - - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance - - - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure
    • M13 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - New Firms; Startups

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