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Paperback Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back Into Economics Book

ISBN: 0472084232

ISBN13: 9780472084234

Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back Into Economics

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Economic theory is currently at a crossroads, where many leading mainstream economists are calling for a more realistic and practical orientation for economic science. Indeed, many are suggesting that economics should be reconstructed on evolutionary lines.
This book is about the application to economics of evolutionary ideas from biology. It is not about selfish genes or determination of our behavior by genetic code. The idea that evolution supports...

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superb survey and novel presentation of economic ideas

Geoffrey Hodgson's work is a welcome relief from the economic drivel peddled by the interests of the powerful. More importantly, he shows the substantive links bewteen economics and our lives as biological agents in a multdimensional ecology we barely understand. In the process he examines the strengths and weaknesses of many of the great economic thinkers of the past. It is a call to arms for all those who see consequences of bad economic thinking all around them in devastated communities and diminished ecosystems. This is a must read for all those dissatisfied with our current economic world view and want to debate economists on their own terms.
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