Hodgson and Knudsen’s Generalized Darwinism (GD) and the Continuity Hypothesis (CH) put forward by Witt are currently vying for hegemony in the ontology of evolutionary economics. GD and the CH allegedly advance rivaling Darwinian foundations for the development of full-fledged causal...

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

Recently evolutionary economists started to pay attention to ontological issues in their own subfield. Two projects dominate the discussions: Generalized Darwinism (GD), promoted by Geoff Hodgson and Thorbjorn Knudsen, and the Continuity Hypothesis (CH), put forward by Ulrich Witt. As a first...