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Agreeing on generalised Darwinism : A response to Pavel Pelikan
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2012)Pelikan (J Evol Econ 21:341-366, 2011) develops an interesting conceptual framework that adds to prior work on generalised Darwinism. Despite claims to the contrary we show that it is similar to the approach developed by ... -
The Complex Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: The Functions and Implications of Habit
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2004)This paper explores the evolution of a simple traffic convention concerning the side of the road on which to drive. This agent-based simulation probes some of the deeper conceptual issues involved in the evolution of ... -
Cultural evolution is more than neurological evolution
Knudsen, T.; Hodgson, G.M. (2006-08-01)Advancing a general Darwinian framework to explain culture is an exciting endeavor. It requires that we face up to the challenge of identifying the specific components that are effective in replication processes in culture. ... -
Dismantling Lamarckism: why descriptions of socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian are misleading
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2006)This paper addresses the widespread tendency to describe socio-economic evolution as Lamarckian. The difference between Lamarckian and Darwinian replication is clarified. It is shown that a phenotype-genotype distinction ... -
The emergence of property rights enforcement in early trade : A behavioral model without reputational effects
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2008)The present article focuses on the conditions that allow governments to increase property rights protection because they expect enough income from such action. We develop a behavioral explanation, according to which the ... -
The firm as an interactor : Firms as vehicles for habits and routines
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2004-07)This paper pursues a research agenda inspired by Richard Nelson and Sidney Winter's Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982). This seminal work applied the Darwinian concepts of variation, replication and selection ... -
Firm-specific learning and the nature of the firm why transaction costs may provide an incomplete explanation
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2007-01-01)This article discusses the limits of a purely transaction cost explanation of the existence of the firm by pointing to additional factors. A simple heuristic model shows that firm-specific learning effects can overcome the ... -
Generative replication and the evolution of complexity
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2010)This paper identifies generative replication as a form of replication which has the potential to enhance complexity in social and biological evolution, including the wondrous complexity in the biological world, and complex ... -
In defence of generalized Darwinism
Aldrich, H.E.; Hodgson, G.M.; Hull, D.L.; Mokyr, J.; Knudsen, T.; Vanberg, V.J. (2008)Darwin himself suggested the idea of generalizing the core Darwinian principles to cover the evolution of social entities. Also in the nineteenth century, influential social scientists proposed their extension to political ... -
In search of general evolutionary principles: why Darwinism is too important to be left to the biologists
Hodgson, Geoffrey; Knudsen, T. (2008)Bioeconomics emphasizes the common ontological ground between economics and biology. However, this does not necessarily mean that both disciplines collapse into one. Instead it is proposed here that Darwinism provides a ... -
Information, complexity and generative replication
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2008)The established definition of replication in terms of the conditions of causality, similarity and information transfer is very broad. We draw inspiration from the literature on self-reproducing automata to strengthen the ... -
The nature and units of social selection
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2006)On the basis of the technical definition of selection developed by George Price (1995), we describe two forms of selection that commonly occur at the social level, subset selection and generative selection. Both forms of ... -
Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause : some questions for Felin and Foss
Hodgson, Geoffrey; Knudsen, T. (2011)We examine an aspect of the argument of Teppo Felin and Nicolai Foss ('The Endogenous Origins of Experience, Routines, and Organizational Capabilities: The Poverty of Stimulus'; 2011) where they reject the claim of Geoffrey ... -
Underqualified-maximal generality in Darwinian explanation : a response to Matt Gers
Hodgson, G.M.; Knudsen, T. (2012)Gers (Biol Philos, 2011) provides a positive and constructive view of the project to generalise Darwinian principles in Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen's Darwin's Conjecture. We note considerable overlap with his ... -
Why we need a generalized Darwinism, and why generalized Darwinism is not enough
Hodgson, G.; Knudsen, T. (2006)Complex evolving systems, consisting of populations of varied and replicating entities are found in both nature and human society. There exists no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and ...