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4 - Generalized Darwinism in Evolutionary Economics

The Devil Is in the Detail

from Part II - Conceptual and Methodological Problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2018

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Jack Vromen
Edited by
Ulrich Witt  and
Andreas Chai
Ulrich Witt
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute, Jena
Andreas Chai
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Understanding Economic Change
Advances in Evolutionary Economics
 , pp. 120 - 154
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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