This paper posits that significant changes in 19th century British recreational travel patternsresulted from a change in the manner in which tourists used entertaining stimuli in order to attain pleasure.Consumers no longer merely viewed arousing stimuli, but attempted to use them to produce...

This paper incorporates aspects of humans’ evolved cognition into a formal model of culturalevolution and scrutinizes their interactions with population-level processes. It is shown how thebiased transmission of different kinds of behavior via cultural learning processes influencesagents’...

The emergence of novelty is a driving agent for economic change. New technologies, new productsand services, new institutional arrangements, to mention a few examples, are the backbone ofdevelopment and growth. Important though it is, the emergence of novelty is not well understood.What seems to...

Recently, it has been suggested that the process of economic development should ideally be viewed as a socioeconomictransformation. Such a view requires a comprehensive understanding of how agents learn and changetheir behaviour. However, these aspects have only been inadequately addressed in...

This paper analyzes how the qualitative change in human labor occurs in mutualdependence with the advancement of the epistemic base of technology. Historically, arecurrent pattern can be identified: humans learned to successively transfer laborqualities to machines. The subsequent release of...

Schumpeterian development is characterised by the simultaneous interplay of growthand qualitative transformations of the economic system. At the sectoral level, suchqualitative transformations become manifest as variations in the sectoral composition ofproduction. Following the implementation of...

IntroductionEntrepreneurship is a fundamental driver of economic evolution. It is also a distinctly spatially unevenprocess, and thus an important explanation of the uneven economic development of regions andnations. Not surprisingly, entrepreneurship is a key element of evolutionary economics...

This paper agrees that a suitably generalized Darwinism may help understandsocioeconomic change, but finds the most publicized generalization by Hodgson and Knudsenunsuitable. To do better, it generalizes the extension of Neo-Darwinism into evolutionarydevelopmental biology (“evo-devo”),...