We address the question of the nature of evolutionary economics as an empirical science. We argue that economics is both a qualitative science (at the generic level) and a quantitative science (at the operational level). We map out how the generic approach provides a framework for empirical...

Evolutionary economics sees the economy as always in motion with change being driven largely by continuing innovation. This approach to economics, heavily influenced by the work of Joseph Schumpeter, saw a revival as an alternative way of thinking about economic advancement as a result of...

Ever since Darwin biologists have emphasised the commonalities between non-human and human species, while anthropologists have stressed the big difference between them. This paper not only endorses commonalities between species but takes them as a means to give extant phylogenetic differences a...