Epistemic Economics and Organization: Forms of Rationality and Governance for a Discovery Oriented Economy

Part 1: Micro-Foundations: From Bounded to Epistemic Rationality 1. 'Models of Man' Revisited 2. The 'Epistemic Man': Heuristics for Innovation Part 2: Contracts and the Theory of the Firm: From the Governance of Transactions to the Governance of Knowledge and Discovery 3. Contract Theory and the Theory of the Firm Revisited 4. Contracts of Society and Collective Discovery 5. Entrepreneurial and Individual Firms Part 3: Organization Design: From Discrete Structural Alternatives to Generative Design 6. Organization Design as Choice between Given Institutional Alternatives: A Critical Appraisal 7. The Discovery and Invention of New Organization Forms: Generative Design 8. Organization Forms for Discovery and Invention: The 'Multimodal Organization' Part 4: Conclusion: A Logic 'Robustness' for an Uncertain World 9. Multifunctionality, Multipurposedness and Robust Economic Organization