Jason R Potts

Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast: Problems, Solutions, and Interpretations (Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication (Paperback))

Representing work by a mixture of veterans and a new generation of lithic analysts, Contemporary Lithic Analysis in the Southeast explores fresh ideas while reworking and pushing the limits of traditional methods and hypotheses.The variability in the southeastern lithic landscape over space and thro...

Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation

Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or 'demes' (o...

The General Theory of Economic Evolution

The first book to chart the development of the field of evolutionary economics, this book provides an integrated generic framework to define the rules of an economic system; how they are coordinated and the causes and consequences of their change. Packed with pedagogical features including essay and...

By Jason Potts The New Evolutionary Microeconomics: Complexity, Competence and Adaptive Behaviour (New Horizons in [Paperback]

Theory Aside

Where can theory go now? Where other voices concern themselves with theory's life or death, the contributors to Theory Aside take up another possibility: that our theoretical prospects are better served worrying less about "what’s next?" and more about "what else?" Instead of looking for the next bi...

The Economics of Creative Industries (International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, #317)

This timely volume explores the emerging concept of the economics of creative industries. Professor Potts has selected key papers authored by leading scholars in the field which cover the evolution and development of this new area of study. Topics addressed in this collection include economic theory...

Cultural Science: A Natural History of Stories, Demes, Knowledge and Innovation

Cultural Science introduces a new way of thinking about culture. Adopting an evolutionary and systems approach, the authors argue that culture is the population-wide source of newness and innovation; it faces the future, not the past. Its chief characteristic is the formation of groups or 'demes' (o...

Key Concepts in Creative Industries (SAGE Key Concepts series)

"This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work." - Gauti Sigthorsson, Greenwich University "There could be no better gui...

Jas Potts

Jason Potts is a New Zealand-born academic economist. His work focuses on the theoretical development of evolutionary economics using complex systems...