How to generalize Darwinism suitably to helpunderstand both the evolutionand the development of economies

This paper agrees that a suitably generalized Darwinism may help understandsocioeconomic change, but finds the most publicized generalization by Hodgson and Knudsenunsuitable. To do better, it generalizes the extension of Neo-Darwinism into evolutionarydevelopmental biology (“evo-devo”), which pays more attention to genomes-as-instructorsthan to genes-as-replicators, and to the entire process of instructed development than to fullydeveloped organisms.[...]