has been inner disagreement on fundamental issues including the building blocks of evolutionary theory and the very … disputes within evolutionary economics. Its primary emphasis is on ontology. It shows that some major disputes derive not from …

out from a bimodal mind/matter ontology which assigns an independent role to ideas, akin to Popper's world 3 approach … unified theory of mind and world (viz. the economy) is out of reach. This allows to introduce a principle of creativity which … is crucial for understanding evolutionary processes. I identify three constitutive principles of evolutionary ontology …

of the main text. I present a naturalistic ontology for economics which builds on Peirce’s theory of signs and posits the … introduce a set of impossibility theorems which allow to specify the ontological constraints which every economic theory has to …