Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/32671 
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Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Papers on Economics and Evolution No. 0817
Publisher: 
Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena
Abstract: 
This paper agrees that a suitably generalized Darwinism may help understand socioeconomic change, but finds the most publicized generalization by Hodgson and Knudsen unsuitable. To do better, it generalizes the extension of Neo-Darwinism into evolutionary developmental biology (evo-devo), which pays more attention to genomes-as-instructors than to genes-as-replicators, and to the entire process of instructed development than to fully developed organisms. The new generalization has clear connections to economics with a minimum guarantee of helpfulness: it generalizes both evo-devo and previously elaborated approaches that already helped understand specific issues of comparative economics, economic reforms, and transformation policies.
Subjects: 
evolution of instructions
instructed development of interactors
multilevel evolution and development
evolution of institutional rules
development of economies
JEL: 
A10
D02
K10
O10
P50
Z10
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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