Current organization theories explain organizational form essentially through selection. That is, instead of focusing on the dynamics of emergence, the field as a whole adopts as its epistemology consequentialism, which emphasizes the relative performances, and hence death rates, of different...

Buss (1987) and Fontana and Buss (1994) have cogently argued that biology's Modern Synthesis of genetics and Darwinian evolution achieved its impressive advances at the cost of eliding a crucial middle step---the existence of organism (or, more generally, of organization). The distribution of...

In this memo, I model the domestic banking business of Renaissance Florentine bankers. "Domestic bankers," in the sense of "those doing banking business within Florence," is an elastic term, including as it does anyone from pawnbrokers to local deposit bankers to international merchant-bankers...