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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Klaes, M. (2004). Evolutionary economics: In defence of “vagueness.” In Journal of Economic Methodology (Vol. 11, pp. 359–376). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.1080/1350178042000252992
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