Darwinism in economics: from analogy to ontology

By Geoffrey M. Hodgson. 2002

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Public participation for sustainability and social learning: Concepts and lessons from three case studies in Europe (2010, background): “In summary, learning has become an important element of management, if the situation is characterized by incomplete knowledge, presence of novelty or surprises and qualitative changes that can lead to irreversibility (Hodgson, 2002; Gunderson and Holling, 2002).”
The firm as an interactor: firms as vehicles for habits and routines (2004, background): “We favour a legally grounded definition of the firm (Blair, 1999; Soderquist, 2000; Hodgson, 2002a).”
Can Darwinism be “Generalized” and of what use would this be? (2011, background): “The claim that “Darwinism involves a general theory of all open, complex systems” (Hodgson 2002) ties in with an ongoing debate in the philosophy of science originally triggered by Dawkin’s (1982) vision of “Universal Darwinism”.”
Towards a Developmental Turn in Evolutionary Economic Geography? (2015, background): “We are not arguing that ‘Generalized Darwinism’ (largely via its use in evolutionary economics) has been the only source of inspiration in EEG; obviously that is not the case.”
Niches in evolutionary theories of technical change (2007, background): “taken up by a number of evolutionary economists, among others by Saviotti (1996); Dalle (1997) ; Windrum and Birchenhall (1998); Frenken et al. (1999); and Nuvolari (2004).5 Their work can be used to argue that within each sociotechnical regime”
What is specific about evolutionary economics? (2008, methodology): “It corresponds to the approach advocated by the proponents of “Universal Darwinism” (Hodgson 2002; Hodgson and Knudsen 2006).”
The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus (2010, background): “…analysis should not only be interested in describing the determinacy of outcomes (experiential and behaviorist models have a certain built-in inevitability, cf. Langlois and Csontos, 1993; De Rond and Thietart, 2007), but should also be interested in the intentional (also see Hodgson, 2002).”
A Cognitive Theory of the Firm (2005, unknown): “A mental 'neural Darwinism' also seems to obtain, in which neural structures emerge, in selection, reinforcement and reproduction, according to their performative success (Edelman 1987, 1992).”
Micro-meso-macro (2004, unknown): “5 See respectively Boulding (1978) and Hodgson (1993, 2002).”
Venture capital start-up co-evolution and the emergence & development of Israel's new high tech cluster (2004, background): “should be mentioned that a ‘Systems Perspective’ includes an Evolutionary view of Economic Processes (Saviotti, 1997; Hodgson, 2002 ).”
Darwinism in economics: from analogy to continuity (2006, methodology): “ Hodgson (2002, 2003) introduces socio-economic replicators such as habits, routines, and institutions, which are compared to DNA, and that are subsequently subject to selection processes.”
From simplistic to complex systems in economics (2005, background): “reassertion of neo-Darwinian/Lamarkian biological analogies in evolutionary economics (see, for example, Hodgson (2002) .”
Why We Need a Generalized Darwinism, And Why Generalized Darwinism is Not Enough (2006, methodology): “This essay makes use of some material from Hodgson (2002) .”
Exploring evolutionary economic geographies (2007, background): “Hodgson (1993, 2002), Knudsen (2002, 2004) and Witt (2004) discuss the different ways that evolutionary arguments have been extended into the domain of economic activity.”