Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
Latest notes and announcements from the field
Geoffrey Hodgson has published a new book, The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in American Institutionalism.You can read here the review published on EH.Net. Geoffrey M. Hodgson, _The Evolution of Institutional Economics: Agency, Structure and Darwinism in…
Read more →A Workshop on Adaptation vs. Selection in Industrial Change will take place at the Academy of Management Meeting in New Orleans, August 7, 2004.
Read more →The abstracts of a new working papers on industrial evolution by Giovanni Gavetti and Johann Peter Murmann are posted.
Read more →An Evolutionary Approach to Social Welfare by Christian Satorius From the Publisher: A person finds a lost purse with a lot of money in it. Ought she try to return it to its owner or keep it herself? And even…
Read more →PBS has produced a spectacular film showing how recent advances in genetic analyses are rewriting the history of human beings. See the PBS website for a schedule of The Journey of Man. The film is also available on video, and…
Read more →Robert Aunger has published a new book in which he spells out his theory of memes. You can read the introduction and the first chapter of his “Electric Meme” here
Read more →Following in the tradition of Karl Popper and David Hull, Marion Blute has written a very interesting paper on the development of science as an evolutionary process. You can read the article The Evolutionary Ecology of Science online at the…
Read more →A Workshop on Cognitions and Capabilities is taking place at Harvard. Click here for details.
Read more →Darwinism in Economics: from Analogy to Ontology. Geoffrey Hodgson has written an important paper that addresses the criticisms that have been marshaled against the application of evolutionary explanations in the social sciences. Hodgson highlights that Darwinism includes a broad theoretical…
Read more →A workshop on “Empirical research on routines in business and economics: Towards a research program” will be held on the November 3-4 in Odense, Denmark. Click here for a call for papers.
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