Evolutionary economics: In defence of ‘vagueness’

Matthias Klaes

No 006/2004, SCEME Working Papers: Advances in Economic Methodology from SCEME

Abstract: Evolutionary economics is an increasingly influential but vaguely defined field of economic research. This article discusses different ways of defining evolutionary economics: at its object level, at the level of core concepts and, distinguishing between meaning determinist and meaning finitist interpretations, as a social institution. A meaning finitist interpretation of 'evolutionary economics', referring to evolutionary economics as a social institution, is suggested to provide a positive account of the diversity of attempts to define evolutionary economics, drawing from an evolutionary framework of the diffusion of labels denoting fields of research.

Keywords: evolutionary-economics; vagueness; finitism; SSK (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B4 B5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-01
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