The economic concept of evolution: Self-organization or universal darwinism?

Journal of Economic Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 377-391

  Geisendorf, Sylvie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Economic evolution; Evolutionary economics; Novelty generation; Selection; Self organization; Universal darwinism

Indexed keywords

EID: 81255140822     PISSN: 1350178X     EISSN: 14699427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13501780903337347     Document Type: Article

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