<Para ID="Par1">Dopfer and Potts (<CitationRef CitationID="CR16">2008</CitationRef>) have proposed a new analytic foundation to evolutionary economics based on the unified rule approach. While they contend that their approach is ontologically and analytically coherent and useful, scholars sympathetic with it, e.g., Ostrom and Basurto (<CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2011</CitationRef>), have called...</citationref></citationref></para>

The basic theme underlying this paper is qualitative change taking place during economic development. These changes in the composition of the economic system should become one of the most important variables in models of economic growth and development. Our knowledge of the relationship between...