Introduction

Abstract

This book is the result of a joint session of AFEE (Association for Evolutionary Economics) and ASE (Association for Social Economics) at the 2010 ASSA (Allied Social Science Association) meeting in Atlanta. I had the opportunity to presided over the session and also make a presentation; the other presenters included Janet Knoedler and Geoffrey Schneider of Bucknell University, Al Campbell of the University of Utah, Nikos Astroulakis from the University of Crete, Greece, and Ellen Mutari of Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, who took part as a discussant. The session was very successful with an attendance of around 60 people. After the presentations, a lively discussion took place. The success of the session inspired the idea for a collection of articles with the same theme in the form of a book. An open call for contributions was made widely, and the following chapters were accepted for inclusion in this book.