Agreeing on generalized Darwinism: A response to Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen

Journal of Evolutionary Economics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-8

  Pelikan, Pavel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Basic agents; Complex agents; Instructing; Lamarckism; Replicating

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855341026     PISSN: 09369937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00191-011-0260-2     Document Type: Article

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