According to the “Generalized Darwinism” movement (GD), the three principles of variation, selection and retention/replication (labeled “Darwinian” in some variants of GD) can and should be used as a meta-theoretical framework for the explanation of evolutionary processes in the...

<Para ID="Par1">Growth theory argues that thresholds can lead to multiple growth regimes, which are reflected in heterogeneous patterns of cross-country convergence and divergence. We study sectoral convergence patterns by using a new longitudinal sectoral database for 65 developed and developing countries. We...</para>

This paper critically discusses the most common methodology for decomposing productivity change into inter- and intra-firm effects. It is argued that the methodology can be improved to explicitly take the role of structural transformation into account, and by so doing, a potential source of bias...

This paper uses network analysis to study how employment intermediaries have influenced inter-firm worker mobility in a region of Italy, in response to a 1997 reform that introduced temporary employment agencies. Worker reallocations from a matched employer-employee dataset are mapped onto a...

<Para ID="Par1">The article presents an overview of the evolutionary approach to eco-innovations with particular emphasis on the role of lock-in and path dependence. In doing so, it focuses on the processes of radical change and the transition of technological systems that require the co-evolution of...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">Increasingly, innovation is conceived in a context of conventions or rules and complexity. However, there is a need for a theoretical basis that describes the innovation process based on complexity. In this essay, we propose a multilevel micro-meso-macro framework that aims to meet this need and...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">In contemporary research, it is common to measure growth-enhancing financial development by the volume of credit as a ratio of the gross domestic product (GDP), an application of Schumpeter’s theory of credit and development. Recently, researchers have been surprised to find a negative...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">In this short note I reply to a comment made by Christian Schubert, who argues that my criticism of libertarian paternalism cannot be upheld under a constitutional economics paradigm. I disagree: it is implausible to assume that sovereign individuals behind a veil of ignorance would actually...</para>

<Para ID="Par1">Dopfer and Potts (<CitationRef CitationID="CR16">2008</CitationRef>) have proposed a new analytic foundation to evolutionary economics based on the unified rule approach. While they contend that their approach is ontologically and analytically coherent and useful, scholars sympathetic with it, e.g., Ostrom and Basurto (<CitationRef CitationID="CR27">2011</CitationRef>), have called...</citationref></citationref></para>