Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
Latest notes and announcements from the field
Evolutionary Theory in Management and Organization Theory at the Beginning of a New Millennium: A Symposium on the State of the Art and Opportunities for Future Research in Evolutionary Theory. You can now read a transcript of the symposium that…
Read more →Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences (etss.net) has asked Brian Loasby to read Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process, edited by John Ziman, and offer his reflections on this exiting new volume. It is widely known that Darwin was highly…
Read more →A large public conference on the contributions of Nelson & Winter will take place at DRUID in Aalberg, Denmark, June 12-15. The conference home page provides all relevant information. A volume “Evolution of Cultural Entities” edited by Wheeler, Ziman and…
Read more →A conference on Evolutionary Economics is taking place at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, March 30-31. The public is invited. For program and list of participants click here.
Read more →The abstracts of a new working papers by Howard Aldrich & Martha Argelia Martinez, Johann Peter Murmann, and Richard R. Nelson are posted.
Read more →The abstract of a new working paper by Bruce Fetter applying the concept of memes to human mortality reduction is now posted.
Read more →For our third original review (published January 9, 2001), Keith Pavitt has taken on the challenging task of evaluating this important new edited book for etss.net. John Ziman (editor) brought together leading scholars on technological change (John Ziman, Eva Jablonka, Joel Mokyr,…
Read more →A conference took place in honor of the Richard R. Nelson at Columbia University in New York. Click here for details on the conference and the papers presented. You can read there Sidney Winter’s speech “The Evolution of Dick Nelson”…
Read more →Scientific American published in its October 2000 issue an article by Susan Blackmore on “The Power of Memes.” Could the major influence in human evolution have been our penchant for mimicking everything from survival skills to gaudy fashions? The author…
Read more →Evolutionary Theory in Management and Organization Theory at the Beginning of a New Millennium: A Symposium on the State of the Art and Opportunities for Future Research Evolutionary Theory. The symposium, organized by Johann Peter Murmann, will take place on…
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