ARTICLES : SPECIAL ISSUE LAW AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY Global (Non-)Law: The Perspective of Evolutionary Jurisprudence

Medical standard of care jurisprudence as evolutionary process: implications under managed care.

Laws in Darwinian Evolutionary Theory

In the present article the recent works to formulate laws in Darwinian evolutionary dynamics are discussed. Although there is a strong consensus that general laws in biology may exist, opinions opposing such suggestion are abundant. Based on recent progress in both mathematics and biology, another attempt to address this issue is made in the present article. Specifically, three laws which form ...

Mathematical Structure of Evolutionary Theory

Here we postulate three laws which form a mathematical framework for the evolutionary dynamics in biology. The second law is most quantitative and is explicitly expressed in a unique form of stochastic differential equation. Salient features of Darwinian evolutionary dynamics are captured by this law: the probabilistic nature of evolution, ascendancy, and the adaptive landscape. Four dynamical ...

Varieties of Asian capitalism: Toward an institutional theory of Asian enterprise

In this paper we respond to calls for an institution-based perspective on strategy. With its emphasis upon mimetic, coercive, and normative isomorphism, institutional theory has earned a deterministic reputation and seems an unlikely foundation on which to construct a theory of strategy. However, a second movement in institutional theory is emerging that gives greater emphasis to creativity and...

The \sigma law of evolutionary dynamics in community-structured populations

Evolutionary game dynamics in finite populations provides a new framework to understand the selection of traits with frequency-dependent fitness. Recently, a simple but fundamental law of evolutionary dynamics, which we call σ law, describes how to determine the selection between two competing strategies: in most evolutionary processes with two strategies, A and B, strategy A is favored over B ...