The book is the ?rst of what is hoped to be a series of readers produced by<br/>the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE)<br/>through Edward Elgar Publishing. The aim of these volumes is to present an<br/>exciting and diverse body of work in economics and related disciplines, to<br/>undergraduate students, graduate students and lecturers. Much of this work is<br/>not discussed in standard textbooks. Yet it is of enormous importance in<br/>understanding the manifest turbulence and transformations in the modern<br/>world. <br/>