Muss ökonomische Theorie evolutorisch sein, weil auch ihr Erkenntnisobjekt »wesensmäßig« evolutorisch ist? Der Tagungsband des Ausschusses für die Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften geht der dogmenhistorischen Einordnung des Themas »Ökonomie und Evolution« nach. Die Beiträge...

The paper unravels the subversive nature of Schumpeter’s proposition that entrepreneurscarry out innovations (the micro level), that swarms of followers imitate them (meso) andthat, as a consequence, ‘creative destruction’ leads to economic development ‘fromwithin’ (macro). It is...

The paper discusses recent trends in the sister sciences of evolutionary economics andcomplexity economics. It suggests that a unifying approach that marries the two strands isneeded when reconstructing economics as a science capable of tackling the two key questions ofthe discipline: complex...

The paper discusses the micro foundations of evolutionary economics, introducing a unified concept of the economic agent as a rule maker and rule user. Based on recent findings of the neuronal, cognitive and behavioral sciences, Homo Sapiens Oeconomicus emerges as an alternative to Homo...