The paper discusses recent trends in the sister sciences of evolutionary economics and complexity economics. It suggests that a unifying approach that marries the two strands is needed when reconstructing economics as a science capable of tackling the two key questions of the discipline: complex...

Main description: Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Auswahl von Beiträgen der Tagung des Ausschusses "Evolutorische Ökonomik" des Jahres 2001 auf Schloss Wartensee bei St. Gallen. Die Tagung stand unter dem Generalthema "Evolutorische Wirtschaftspolitik" und markierte das zehnjährige...

Ever since Darwin biologists have emphasised the commonalities between non-human and human species, while anthropologists have stressed the big difference between them. This paper not only endorses commonalities between species but takes them as a means to give extant phylogenetic differences a...