From Catastrophe to Chaos: A General Theory of Economic Discontinuities

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Discontinuity in Economic Theory and Economic Discontinuities....Pages 1-5
The Mathematics of Discontinuity....Pages 7-35
Discontinuities in Microeconomic Systems....Pages 37-55
Speculative Bubbles and Crashes I: Irrational....Pages 57-71
Speculative Bubbles and Crashes II: Rational and Semi-Rational....Pages 73-95
Catastrophe Theory in Macroeconomics....Pages 97-105
Chaos Theory and Macroeconomics....Pages 107-124
Discontinuity and Capital Theory....Pages 125-145
Discontinuous Evolution of Urban Historical Forms....Pages 147-171
Discontinuities in Intraurban Systems....Pages 173-194
Morphogenesis of Regional Systems....Pages 195-217
Perspectives on Economic and Ecologic Evolution....Pages 219-232
Ecosystems and Economics....Pages 233-259
The Limits to Growth and Global Catastrophe Revisited....Pages 261-271
Instability and Volatility of Foreign Exchange Rates....Pages 273-307
The Discontinuous World Economy....Pages 309-317
Summary and Conclusions: Leaping Across the Abyss....Pages 319-328
Back Matter....Pages 329-402