Economic cosmology and the evolutionary challenge

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gowdy, John M ^a   Dollimore, Denise E ^b   Wilson, David Sloan ^c   Witt, Ulrich ^d  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^c BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competition and cooperation; Economic man; Evolutionary economics; History of economic thought; Multilevel selection; Spontaneous order

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880327821     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.009     Document Type: Article

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