Economic Natural Selection: What Concept of Selection?

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• 作者：Jean Gayon (1)
  
• 关键词：Evolutionary economics ; Evolutionary game theory (EGT) ; Heredity ; Multiplication ; Natural selection ; Richard R. Nelson ; Reproduction ; Bernard Walliser ; Sidney G. Winter
• 刊名：Biological Theory
• 出版年：2011
• 出版时间：December 2011
• 年：2011
• 卷：6
• 期：4
• 页码：320-325
• 全文大小：150KB
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• 作者单位：Jean Gayon (1)
  
  1. Institut d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques (IHPST), Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France
  

文摘

The article examines two cases of adoption of evolutionary ways of thinking by modern economists: Nelson and Winter’s (Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, 1982), and evolutionary game theory (1990s and after). In both cases, the authors explicitly refer to natural selection in an economic context. I show that natural selection is taken in two different senses, which correspond to two general conceptions of the principle of natural selection, one of which contains reproduction and heredity as key elements, whereas the other does not.