Evolutionary developmental economics: How to generalize Darwinism fruitfully to help comprehend economic change

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 341-366

  Pelikan, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Development of economies; Evolution of institutional rules; Evolution of instructions; Instructed development; Multilevel evolution

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954629451     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-010-0178-0     Document Type: Article

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