Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review

Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review is an economics journal published by Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics (JAFEE) since November 2004. Its stance is highly critical of main stream neoclassical economics, i.e. adoption of equilibrium and methodological individualism as the framework of economic analysis. It is one of the four major journals in the evolutionary strand of economics. It was ranked number 304 in the digital ranking of economic journals, made by Real-world economics review on October 2011. General ideas are figured out by the paper putt at the top of the volume 1, tome 1 of the journal: Evolutionary Economics in the 21st Century: A Manifest. The journal can be freely read and downloadable at J-Stage Website.
Focus of Areas
* Foundation of institutional and evolutional economics
* Criticism of mainstream views in social sciences
* Knowledge and learning in socio-economic life
* Development and innovation of technologies
* Transformation of industrial organizations and economic systems
* Experimental studies in economics
* Agent based modeling of socio-economic systems
* Evolution of governance structure of firms and other organizations
* Comparison of dynamically changing institutions of the world
* Policy proposals in the transformational process of economic life
Special Features
In comparison to other evolutionary economics journals such as Journal of Institutional Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review has accepted new trends of economic analysis like agent-based social simulation, evolutionary computation, econophysics. This is due to the fact that supporting society Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics was founded in 1997 at the time the theory of complexity, complexity economics, evolutionary computation and econophysics came to give birth.
Major contributions
Research program in evolutionary economics
* Shiozawa, Y., Evolutionary Economics in the 21st Century: A Manifest.
* Nishibe, M., Redefining Evolutionary Economics.
* Yoshida, M., Keynesian Economics — An Evolutionist Manifest.
* Dopfer, K. and J. Potts, On the theory of Economics Evolution
* Andersen, E. S., Population Thinking, Prices's Equation and the Analysis of Economics Evolution.
* Reschke, C.H., and S. Kraus, An Evolutionary Perspective on the Management of Stability and Change.
History of Economic and Social Thought
* Yagi, K., 2007 Evolutionary Reading of Max Weber’s Economic Sociology—A Reappraisal of ‘Marx-Weber Problem’.
Evolutionary economic analysis in various fields
* Sawabe, N., Co-evolution of Accounting Rules and Creative Accounting Instruments \mdash; The Case of a Rule-based Approach to Accounting Standard Setting.
* Sakaki, S., A Concept of Transaction-Based Economics: A System of National Accounts Based on Corporate Transactions.
* Hashimoto, T., Evolutionary Linguistics and Evolutionary Economics.
Complexity theory
* Mainzer, K., Challenges of Complexity in the 21st Century.
Agent-based simulation and related topics
* Special issue on U-Mart (Unreal Model for Artificial Research Testbed)
* Yoon, M. and Keun Lee, Agent-based and "History-Friendly" Models for Explaining Industrial Evolution.
Econophysics
* Aruka, Y., and J. Mimkes, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Interaction \madash; Introduction to Socio- and Econo-Physics.
* Kaizoji, T., H. Iyetomi, and Y. Ikeda, Re-examination of Size Distribution of Frims.
Evolution of institutions and organizations
* Special issue on The Socio-economics of Institutions and Evolution
* Kimura, S., Coevolution of Firms Strategies and Institutional Setting in Firms-based late Industrialization \mdash; The Case of the Japanese Commercial Aircraft Industry.
* Pelafz, V., R. Hofmann, M. Melo, and D. Aquino, Foundations and Microfoundations of Dynamic Capabilities.
* Pereira, E.T., A.J. Fernades and H.M.M. Diz, Competitive and Industrial Evolution: The Case of Ceramic Industry.
Demand satiation and growth
* Matsumae, T., A Study on Consistency between Empirical Studies and Growth Models with Demand Satiation.
International trade, theories and policies
* Shiozawa, Y. (2007) A New Construction of Ricardian Trade Theory: Many-country, Many-commodity Case with Intermediate Goods and Choice of Production Techniques, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 3(2)141-187.
* Fujimoto, T., and Y. Shiozawa (2011/2012) Inter and Intra Company Competition in the Age of Global Competition: A Micro and Macro Interpretation of Ricardian Trade theory, Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, 8(1)1-37 and 8(2)193-231.
Other Related Economics Journals
*Journal of Institutional Economics
*Journal of Evolutionary Economics
*Journal of Economic Issues
*Cambridge Journal of Economics
*Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
*Structural Change and Economic Dynamics
*Asian Journal of Technology Innovation
*Real-world economics review

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