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Novelty and the bounds of unknowledge in economics

Witt, Ulrich - 2007

The emergence of novelty is a driving agent for economic change. New technologies, new products and services, new …

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The adaptation problem, evolution and normative economics

Qizilbash, Mozaffar - 2007

social evolution. …

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Vicarious learning and socio-economic transformation in Indian Trans-Himalaya

Chandrasekhar, K.; Bhaduri, Saradindu - 2005

transformation. Such a view requires a comprehensive understanding of how agents learn and change their behaviour. However, these … insight into the speed of socioeconomic transformations. It also helps to identify appropriate change agents within a society …

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Darwinism in economics and the evolutionary theory of policy-making

Schubert, Christian - 2009

According to the advocates of a Generalized Darwinism (GD), the three core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and retention (or inheritance) can be used as a general framework for the development of theories explaining evolutionary processes in the socioeconomic domain. Even though...

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Vicarious Learning and Socio-Economic Transformation in Indian Trans-Himalaya: An evolutionary tale of economic development and policy making

Chandrasekhar, K.; Bhaduri, Saradindu - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2006

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Generic Features of Evolution and Its Continuity -- a Transdisciplinary Perspective

Witt, Ulrich - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2002

Evolution is thought to occur in many disciplinary domains. Because of the intellectual attraction of the neo …-Darwinian theory of evolution, evolutionary processes in other domains are often conceptualized in terms of that theory. However, as … generic features of evolution which transcend all domain-specific characteristics. Two concrete features are discussed …

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The Proper Interpretation of 'Evolution' in Economics and the Example of Production Theory

Witt, U. - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2003

How relevant is the notion of evolution for economics? In view of the paradigmatic influence of Darwinian thought … of evolution is suggested that is based on a few, abstract, common principles which all domain-specific evolutionary …

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Phylogenetic footprints in organizational behavior

Witt, Ulrich; Schwesinger, Georg - 2012

An evolutionary tool kit is applied in this paper to explain how innate social behavior traits evolved in early human groups. These traits were adapted to the particular production requirements of the group in human phylogeny. They shaped the group members' attitudes towards contributing to the...

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How Corporate Cultures Coevolvewith the Business Environment: The Case ofFirm Growth Crises and Industry Evolution

Cordes, Christian; Richerson, Peter J.; Schwesinger, Georg - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften - 2009

culture have repercussions on an industry’s evolution. In our theory, the latter isattributable to evolving corporate cultures …

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Can Darwinism Be “Generalized” and of What Use Would This Be?

Levit, Georgy S.; Hoßfeld, Uwe; Witt, Ulrich - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik <Jena> / Abteilung … - 2010

It has been suggested that, by generalizing Darwinian principles, a common foundation can bederived for all scientific disciplines dealing with evolutionary processes, especially forevolutionary economics. In this paper we show, however, that the principles of such a“Generalized Darwinism”...

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