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Guzelian, Christopher P. - 2019

"Empirical" economists typically have no problem with data-driven, inductive research. But so-called Austrian economists have always objected strenuously on ontological and epistemological grounds that such studies do not produce real knowledge (Mises 1998, 113-115; Mises 2007). Camps of economists...

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Can Darwinism be “generalized” and of what use would this be?

Levit, Georgy S.; Hossfeld, Uwe; Witt, Ulrich - 2010

principles of such a "Generalized Darwinism" are not those that in the development of evolutionary biology have been crucial for … evolutionary approach to economics. -- Darwinism ; evolution ; evolutionary economics ; "Generalized Darwinism" ; variation …

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Methodological Individualism and Cultural Evolution : Ontogenetic and Phylogenetic Approaches to Social Order

Lindemans, Jan Willem - 2012

sciences. “Ontogeny” then refers to the development not only of organisms but also of social systems on the basis of fixed … developmental rules, while “phylogeny” refers to the evolution of such entities through selection upon variation. Hodgson believes … economics and evolution (can) relate to each other and apply these ideas to Hayek’s work …

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Economics and Rationality: Contributions and Limits of Polanyian Approach

POSTEL, Nicolas; SOBEL, Richard - In: Cahiers d’économie politique / Papers in Political … (2008) 54, pp. 121-148

Polanyi analyzes the historical deployment of a "formal" economic science starting from the triptych "market-rarety- instrumental rationality ". It reveals this triptych, and the knowledge which is devoted to it, as being a part of a question broader than should analyze a "substantial" economic...

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Den Dahménska ansatsens tillkomst och dess ställning i den schumpeterianska tanketraditionen

Henriksson, Rolf - Ratioinstitutet - 2002

I denna uppsats visas att Dahmén redan 1939 hade kommit fram till den grundläggande transformationsteoretiska syn han redovisade i sin licentiat avhandling av 1942. I en djuplodande analys av felinvesteringarnas roll i långsiktiga utvecklingsförlopp grundlade Dahmén 1939 för det...

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Economic behavior: Evolutionary vs. behavioral perspectives

Witt, Ulrich - 2010

An evolutionary perspective on economic behavior has to account for the influences that the human genetic endowment has on the choices the agents make. Likely to have been fixed in times of fierce selection pressure, this endowment is presumably adapted to the living conditions of early humans....

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Economic Behavior - Evolutionary vs. Behavioral Perspectives

Witt, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2010

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Minsky's money manager capitalism and the global financial crisis

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

The world's worst economic crisis since the 1930s is now well into its third year. All sorts of explanations have been proffered for the causes of the crisis, from lax regulation and oversight to excessive global liquidity. Unfortunately, these narratives do not take into account the systemic...

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Agency Theory, Values, and Early Evolutionary Economic Theory

Fink, Gerhard - 2012

Purpose: We address the 'economics/cross-cultural management interface,' showing that bi-polar value perceptions fit into an agency model of an economy. Design: Modern views of economic processes have moved away from the traditional view of closed systems, with a tendency to cite them as open...

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Generalized Darwinism inEvolutionary Economics:The Devil is in the Details

Vromen, Jack - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2007

This paper is a follow-up on two earlier debates I was part of. One debate is documentedin a special issue of The Journal of Economic Methodology, edited by Matthias Klaes andcalled Symposium: Ontological Issues in Evolutionary Economics (2004) The other oneis reported in a special issue of The...

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