The notion of welfare has historically been related to the notion of satisfying individual preferences or wants. This point of view was proposed by Bentham in the eighteen century. Following Bentham, welfare is thought to depend on satisfaction of those preferences. We shall try to show how this no..

Since Sidney Winter published his paper on “Knowledge and competence as Strategic assets”, the number of publications on the role of knowledge in economics has immensely grown. l-Iere we shall analyze that role from an evolutionary point of view, and try to show that the discussion about concepts like “evolution” is not closed, and that the Darwinian framework of evolutionary economics is in debate.

Since Sidney Winter published his paper on "Knowledge and competence as Strategic assets", the number of publications on the role of knowledge in economics has immensely grown. Here we shall analyze that role from an evolutionary point of view, and try to show that the discussion about concepts like "evolution" is not closed, and that the Darwinian framework of evolutionary economics is in debate.