Can Darwinism be "Generalized" and of what use would this be?

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 545-562

  Levit, Georgy S ^a,b   Hossfeld, Uwe ^b   Witt, Ulrich ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KING S COLLEGE   (Canada)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

Author keywords

"Generalized Darwinism"; Darwinism; Evolution; Evolutionary economics; Retention; Selection; Variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052040162     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-011-0235-3     Document Type: Article

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