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Ulrich Witt (6. November 1946 in Göttingen) is a German economist and Director of the Evolutionary Economics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Economics in Jena (Germany). He also holds an honorary professorship at the Friedrich Schiller University. His areas of research include evolutionary economics, long-term trends in economic development, as well as transformations that economic institutions, production, and consumption activities undergo over time. Witt studied economics at the University of Goettingen and received his Ph.D. in 1979. After completing the Habilitation at the University of Mannheim in 1985 he served as a professor of economics at the University of Mannheim, the University of Southern California (Los Angeles), the Saarland University (Saarbrücken), and the University of Freiburg before he joined the Max Planck Institute of Economics in 1995. Ulrich Witt is a member of several scientific advisory boards/bodies. He was awarded the K. William Kapp Prize from the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy in 1992 and received an honorary doctorate from the University Witten-Herdecke in 2003. Furthermore, he is an honorary member of the Japanese Association for Evolutionary Economics. Ulrich Witt has published over 100 scholarly articles, as well as 12 books. Central to his work is the idea of a naturalistic approach to evolutionary economics. His research connects insights from different disciplines such as biology and psychology and economics with the aim to enrich economic thinking. He applied this approach both to consumer theory and the theory of the firm. ==Individualistic foundations of evolutionary economics== Witt’s 1987 German-language book "Individualistische Grundlagen der evolutorischen Ökonomik" is the starting point of an independent line of evolutionary economic thought. The book developed an ambitious vision of evolutionary economics as a general approach to the study of emergent novelty and dynamic change in economic behavior. In contrast to the Neo-Schumpeterian approach pioneered by Nelson and Winter (1982), which focused on industrial economics and drew its primary inspiration from the Carnegie School of organizational theory, Witt (1987) was strongly influenced by behaviorist and cognitive psychology, sociobiology, and also Austrian economics. Witt provided a multi-faceted account of individual economic agency based on inherited traits as well as a variety of learning processes. The 1987 book - which was derived from Witt’s Habilitation thesis - thus contains the nucleus of what Witt subsequently termed the “Continuity Hypothesis”. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ulrich Witt」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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