How to generalize Darwinism suitably to help understand both the evolution and the development of economies

Pavel Pelikan

Papers on Economics and Evolution from Philipps University Marburg, Department of Geography

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

Keywords: evolution of instructions; instructed development of interactors; multilevel evolution and development; evolution of institutional rules; development of economies Length 36 pages (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A10 D02 K10 O10 P50 Z10 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-01
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cbe, nep-hpe, nep-law and nep-pke
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