Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy Festschrift in Honor of Åke E. Andersson

Ake E.Andersson has always been intellectually on the move. He has selected his own track through the academic system and has formed a school of thought which has brought him international recognition. The cornerstones of his scientific interest are welfare analysis, regional economic dynamics and human capital theory. For his excellent achievements on dynamic analysis in the field of regional economics and regional planning he received the Japanese Honda Prize in 1995. This book provides a sample of the broad ranging research of Ake E.Andersson. Here some of his friends and colleagues have contributed to give various examples from the growing research field "Knowledge and Networks in a Dynamic Economy" in which he has been a great inspiration and in which he has contributed as part of his prodigious output.

Åke E Andersson — Biosketch and Scientific Contribution 1936–1996.- An Outline of the Volume.- Regional Science Perspectives for the Future.- Commonalities, Regional Science and the Future — A Septuagenerian Perspective.- Synergetics and Control in Networks.- Decision Making and Optimization in Regional Planning.- Putting Some Life Into the System.- Simulations in Decision Making for Socio-technical Systems.- Minimal Complexity and Maximal Decentralization.- Dynamics of Economical Networks.- An Arrow’s Theorem Perspective on Networks.- Dynamics of International Financial Networks: Modeling, Stability Analysis, and Computation.- Price and Nonprice Competition in Oligopoly With Scaling of Characteristics.- A Schloss Laxenburg Model of Product Cycle Dynamics.- Gradient Dynamics in Webrian Location Theory.- Creativity — Learning and Knowledge in Networks.- Human Contacts in, Knowledge Society: An Analytical Perspective.- Education, Job Requirements, and Commuting: An Analysis of Network Flows.- Informative Contests and the Efficient Selection of Agents.- Scientific Collaboration as Spatial Interaction.- On Confucius — A Way of Chinese Thinking on Values and Institutions.- The Infrastructure Arena — Transportation and Communication Networks.- Co-Evolutionary Learning on Networks.- Modeling Adopters’ Behaviour in Information Technology Systems: A Multi-Actor Approach.- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Interdependent Transportation Investment Projects.- Roadway Incident Analysis with a Dynamic User-Optimal Route Choice Model.- Transportation in Knowledge Society.- List of Contributors.