"why is Economics not an evolutionary science?" New answers to veblen's old question

Journal of Economic Issues

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 867-898

  Dobusch, Leonhard ^a   Kapeller, Jakob ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Paradigmatic dominance; Path dependency; Pluralism

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849087307     PISSN: 00213624     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/JEI0021-3624430403     Document Type: Article

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