Darwinism in economics: from analogy to continuity

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Towards a Developmental Turn in Evolutionary Economic Geography? (2015, background): “In this view, as the neo-Darwinian principles of VSR are forced to become ever more abstract in order to apply across all aspects of the economy, so they lose their explanatory power in the process (CORDES, 2006).”
Creation and Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Opportunities: An Evolutionary Economics Perspective (2007, background): “This position is not unequivocally accepted in the evolutionary economics camp, however (cf. Foster, 1997; Witt, 2003; Cordes, 2004).”
Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? (2011, background): “Supporting the continuity hypothesis, Cordes (2006) points to the fact that biological evolution has created a human “behavioral repertoire” which forms the bedrock of cultural evolution and gives rise to specific adaptation dynamics for whose understanding the abstract principles of variation,…”
What is specific about evolutionary economics? (2008, background): “Some critics object to the inevitable risks of being misled in economic theorizing by the domain specific abstractions of Universal Darwinism (Buenstorf 2006; Cordes 2006).”