Introduction -- Evolutionary political economy : theory -- Creative economy as a resource for specific local developments / Ismail Erturk and Pascal Petit -- Creative industries between "living labs" and "robinsonnade" / Philippe Bouquillion and Pierre Mcglin -- Population thinking vs....

We consider the microfoundations controversy from the perspective ofeconomic evolution and show that the debatecan benefit from lessons learned in evolutionary biology. Althoughthe analogy between biology and economics hasbeen noted before, it has rarely focused on clarifying the micro-macro...