The standard neoclassical approach to economic theorising excludes, by definition, economic emergence and the related … of understanding emergence and we explore the advances that have been made in this regard. We go on to argue that … evolutionary economics can make further progress by taking a more ‘naturalistic’ approach to economic evolution. This requires that …

Societies in Western civilisation enforce their rules through formal institutions such as secularism (SES), whereas in … less developed civilisations often rely on informal institutions such as religion (RES). The present paper attempts to … development using an example of two different enforcement models: one informal (RES) and one formal (SES). We find that, because …

, the NIE expanded its focus to the role of institutions and norms on economic development as well as how economic forces … on complexity theory to further supplement the NIE and Cliometrics …

Theoretical models of the Kuznets Curve have been purely analytical with little contribution towards an understanding …