This paper shows that households with positional concerns and convex status utility use gambling to attempt … Germany, proxying the status orientation of households by their expenditures for conspicuous consumption. Our empirical … results strongly indicate that households who care about status are more likely to participate in gambling and invest more in …

in the literature and variables specifically related to emulation, income level, income distribution and urbanization …

rejected the application of `Darwinism' to socio-economic evolution. Among this group, some have argued that self …-organisation is an alternative to biological analogies or Darwinism. Others have seen `artificial selection' as an alternative to … natural selection in the socio-economic sphere. Another objection is that Darwinism excludes human intentionality. It is shown …

principles of such a "Generalized Darwinism" are not those that in the development of evolutionary biology have been crucial for … "Generalized Darwinism" can be made fruitful for evolutionary economics given that its principles are but an abstract hull that … little evidence in the literature for the claim that Generalized Darwinism can enhance the explanatory power of an …

explicitly rejected biological metaphors and analogies in economics. Furthermore, Schumpeter misunderstood Darwinism. In his … attempt to `interpret' Schumpeter as a Darwinian, Kelm himself misrepresents the three core principles of Darwinism. In …