Interprétation évolutionniste du changement économique. Une étude comparative

This work is an attempt, first, to outline the basic building blocks of evolutionary theory in economics and, second, to offer a comparative assessment of different strands of literature which call upon evolutionary ideas of some sort. We sketch out what we consider to be the main results achieved so far by a few different approaches that invoke, evolutionary explanations of economic phenomena and map some overlaps and differences among them. More specifically, we shall consider models and empirical studies in a post-schumpeterian perspective, evolutionary game theories, organizational ecology approaches, artificial economies and a part of literature on adaptative learning.Classification JEL : B25, B41, B52, B53, C63, C79, C80, C81, D21, D83