Darwinism in Economics: from Analogy to Ontology. Geoffrey Hodgson has written an important paper that addresses the criticisms that have been marshaled against the application of evolutionary explanations in the social sciences. Hodgson highlights that Darwinism includes a broad theoretical framework for the analysis of the evolution of all open, complex systems, and involves a basic philosophical commitment to detailed, cumulative, causal explanations. You can download this new paper here