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Evolutionary economics: In defence of ‘vagueness’

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Matthias Klaes (Centre for Economic Resarch, Keele University, England)

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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.

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Paper provided by SCEME in its series SCEME Working Papers: Advances in Economic Methodology with number 006/2004.

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Keywords: evolutionary-economics vagueness finitism SSK

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