Darwinism and Evolutionary Economics brings together contributions from eminent authors who, building on Darwin's own insights and on developments in evolutionary theory, offer challenging views on how economics can use evolutionary ideas effectively

According to Pinker, language is an innate ability to Homo Sapiens, happily acquired in the process of evolution. Language ability distinguishes humans from other animals. Pinker gives some facts as the proof, discrediting experiments on training of a chimpanzee in language. For each...

The recent debate about the value of Darwinism as a source of ontological foundations for evolutionary economics reduces to a disagreement about whether or not the causal logic of Darwinism applies to economic evolution. However, this logic has not yet been fully specified. While the explanantia...

Network effects play a central role in many information goods industries including electronics and software. So far, however, their role in shaping biotechnology innovation has largely been overlooked. This paper presents data documenting the presence of strong network effects in stem cell...