Peter Nijkamp, Jacques Poot 1 Department of Spatial Economics, Free University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Tel.: +31-20-44460 94; Fax: +31-20-44460 04; e-mail: [email protected]) 2 School of Economics and Finance, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington, New Zealand (Tel.: +64-4-4721000; Fax: +64-4-4955014; e-mail: [email protected])

We outline, briefly, the role that issues of the nexus between noncomputability and unpredictability, on the one hand, and between undecidability and unsolvability, on the other, have played in Computable Economics. The mathematical underpinnings of Computable Economics are provided by (classical) recursion theory, varieties of computable and constructive analysis and aspects of combinatorial o...

Although systematic evidence on the extent of spatial inequality in developing countries is still relatively scarce, a growing body of work documents the existence of such inequalities in countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America (Kanbur and Venables 2005a, 2005b; Kanbur, Venables, and Wan 2006). Little consensus has emerged, however, on the causes of spatial inequality or the ways i...

Rational choice theory is pragmatically used by mainstream economics to explain and defend the existence and behavior of prevailing social and economic institutions as being optimal. Every deviation in actual individual and institutional behavior from the optimum is attributed to imperfections in the agents’ ability to pursue the optimal actions rather than the implausibility of the underlying ...

In this paper we discuss some formal limitations in contemporary economic theory and their solution in alternative set theories. The computability of choice functions as well as the existence of economic equilibria and of states of the world may not be ensured in general if the assumed set theory is ZFC. We claim that a switch to an alternative set theory may help to get rid of some of these ne...

According to psychological research, scarcity increases an object's desirability. Although inconsistent with the assumptions of formal economic theory, this effect of scarcity may be attributable to people's naive (or informal) economic theories. More specifically, scarcity's enhancement of desirability may be mediated by the belief that scarce things are more expensive than available ones. Exi...

2 13 I n the field of mass communication, the term theory is often loosely defined. Paradigms, conceptual frameworks, models, normative theories, and, of course, actual theories are all frequently referred to as " theory, " although they represent very different constructs. As traditionally defined in science, a theory is a systematically related set of statements about the causes or relationsh...

postmodernism leads to epochal changes in culture, technology, economic, art and other areas. management as a multidisciplinary science is being affected by this new paradigm. also, marketing as a dynamic area of management and due to communication with people and society being affected by culture and individuals' attitudes changes and especially postmodernism. many believe that postmodern...

globalization, more than a concept, is a process in which developing of sciences, technologies of production and information have changed many sides of life and brought some different approaches to them. among these phenomena, power relations have significantly changed. levels and aspects of development have interaction with other changing concepts and sometimes reject the patterns of moderniza...

This paper gives an overview of various approaches to how innovations affect economic growth: from standard macroeconomic equilibrium theory, growth accounting, new growth theories, catching-up theories, evolutionary theories based on theories of techno-economic paradigms and co-evolution to a systems of innovation approach. The paper focuses on approaches which sees growth as emanating from pr...