The renowned institutionalist Geoffrey Hodgson has claimed inter alia that heterodox economics has failed to define its nature and scope, does not take pluralism seriously, and lacks expertise concentration to ensure quality which means it has made limited progress and is held in variable...

1. Editorial: Consequences of Social Transformation for Economic Theory -- 2. A Survey on Business Cycles: History, Theory and Empirical Findings -- 3. Implementation of the Evolutionary-Genetic Methodology in the Mechanisms of Synthesis of Economic Theory -- 4. Synthesis of Mainstream and...

The intellectual histories of economics and evolutionary biology are closely intertwined because both subjects deal with living, complex, evolving systems. Because the subject matter is similar, contemporary evolutionary thought has much to offer to economics. In recent decades theoretical...