Economic History and the History of Economic Thought haven been relegated increasingly from the teaching and research curricula of economics in recent years. The paper starts off arguing that this trend is due to the mechanistic ontology of mainstream economics, and it continues setting out an...

Building on the ontology of evolutionary realism recently proposed by Dopfer and Potts (forthcoming), we develop an analytical framework for evolutionary economics with a micro-meso-macro architecture. The motive for reconception is to make clear the highly complex and emergent nature of...

Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Auswahl von Beiträgen der Tagung des Ausschusses 'Evolutorische Ökonomik' des Jahres 2000 zum Generalthema 'Forschungsprogramm der Evolutorischen Ökonomik - Vielfalt und Einheit'. Die Beiträge des Bandes kreisen um drei thematische Schwerpunkte. Adolf...

Der vorliegende Band enthält eine Auswahl von Beiträgen der Tagung des Ausschusses 'Evolutorische Ökonomik' des Jahres 2001 auf Schloss Wartensee bei St. Gallen. Die Tagung stand unter dem Generalthema 'Evolutorische Wirtschaftspolitik' und markierte das zehnjährige Bestehen des Ausschusses....

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...

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