The paper discusses recent trends in the sister sciences of evolutionary economics andcomplexity economics. It suggests that a unifying approach that marries the two strands isneeded when reconstructing economics as a science capable of tackling the two key questions ofthe discipline: complex...

Inspired by Peter Godfrey-Smith's book Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection (2009), the paper seeks to develop a view on Darwinizing evolutionary economics that differs from the view espoused in Hodgson and Knudsen project of Generalized Darwinism. It is argued that on Hodgson and...

It has been suggested that, by generalizing Darwinian principles, a common foundation can bederived for all scientific disciplines dealing with evolutionary processes, especially forevolutionary economics. In this paper we show, however, that the principles of such a“Generalized Darwinism”...

This paper is a follow-up on two earlier debates I was part of. One debate is documentedin a special issue of The Journal of Economic Methodology, edited by Matthias Klaes andcalled Symposium: Ontological Issues in Evolutionary Economics (2004) The other oneis reported in a special issue of The...

In the last two decades there has been a noticeable increase in published research inevolutionary economics. The idea that formal modelling is a sine qua non condition forestablishing a rigours and coherence scientific frame, has led to an over concern withformalization issues among evolutionary...

The paper unravels the subversive nature of Schumpeter’s proposition that entrepreneurscarry out innovations (the micro level), that swarms of followers imitate them (meso) andthat, as a consequence, ‘creative destruction’ leads to economic development ‘fromwithin’ (macro). It is...

Considerable debate surrounds the concept of entrepreneurial opportunities. This papercontributes to the discussion by bringing in concepts and findings from evolutionaryeconomics. It makes three points. First, adopting an evolutionary market process perspectivesheds new light on the nature of...