About the Editors

John Foster is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. He is Fellow of the Academy of Social Science in Australia; Life member of Clare Hall College, Cambridge; Past President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society; and Senior Research Associate in the Centre of Policy Futures at UQ. His current research interests include complexity economics, with special reference to the role of self-organization in economic evolution; modelling evolutionary economic growth, with special reference to the roles of energy and knowledge; and modelling the macroeconomic impacts of the diffusion of renewable energy technologies. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Bioeconomics and Journal of Institutional Economics.

Jason Potts is a Distinguished Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne. He is also the Co-director of RMIT's Blockchain Innovation Hub. His research focuses on the economics of innovation and new technologies, economic evolution, institutional economics, and complexity economics. He has written seven books and published over 100 articles on broad range of topics, including growth theory, creative industries, the economics of cities, innovation commons, crypto-economics and blockchain. He is an editor of the Journal of Institutional Economics, Vice President of the International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society, a Board Member of the Australian Digital Commerce Association, and a Fellow of the British Blockchain Association.

Isabel Almudi is Professor of Economics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where she also belongs to the Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos. She has been Visiting Fellow at the European University Institute, Columbia University and RMIT University. Her research fields are evolutionary economics, innovation studies, environmental economics and dynamic systems. She has published her work in Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Metroeconomica, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Bioeconomics and Economics of Innovation and New Technology.

Francisco Fatas-Villafranca is Professor of Economics at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He has been Visiting Scholar at Columbia University and Visiting Researcher at the University of Manchester. His research focuses on economic theory and quantitative methods in the social sciences, with special interest in evolutionary economics. He has published his work in Journal of Public Economic Theory, Industrial and Corporate Change, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Computational Economics, Metroeconomica, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Journal of Economic Issues, Journal of Bioeconomics, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Economics of Innovation and New Technology, and Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review. 

David A. Harper is Clinical Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Program on the Foundations of the Market Economy at New York University. His research interests span institutional economics, Austrian economics and evolutionary economics, with a specific emphasis upon issues related to entrepreneurship, innovation, dynamic competition, property rights, emergent phenomena, complexity and economic development. He has written two books (Entrepreneurship and the Market Process and Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development) and has published extensively in academic journals. He was formerly Chief Analyst and Manager at the New Zealand Treasury.

Areas of Interest

This element will provide comprehensive overviews of the major building blocks of evolutionary economics across micro, meso and macro domains of analysis.

It will extend from theories of evolutionary economic behavior, entrepreneurship and the innovating firm, and agent-based modelling, to processes of variation and selection in evolutionary competition, industrial dynamics, evolutionary economics of institutions, emergent complexity, and evolutionary macroeconomics.

• Economics
• Business
• Management
• Industry
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship

Contact the Editors

If you would like more information about this series, or are interested in writing an Element, please contact Jason Potts or John Foster