lead article for a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, we first describe how evolution … functions as a general theoretical framework in the biological sciences. Then we consider four reasons why evolution might not … valid in particular cases, but they fail for any sizeable human-related subject area. Hence evolution can and should become …

Accounts of economic change recognize that markets create selective pressures for the adaptation of technologies in the …. Exaptation is a missing but central concept linking the evolution of technology with the entrepreneurial creation of new markets …

situations. He discusses models drawn from the modern literature on cultural evolution in which imitation of others is the basic …