Evolutionary economics and human nature / edited by John Laurent.
"The authors address the question of human nature in economics, examining not only some of the recent writing on this subject in evolutionary psychology and related disciplines, but also the ideas of important thinkers in the Western intellectual tradition. Beginning with the ancient Greeks and...
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Cheltenham :
Edward Elgar,
2003.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface / Geoffrey M. Hodgson
- Introduction / John Laurent
- 1. Evolution and the Nature of Man in Greek Thought / Geoffrey Fishburn
- 2. Augustine on Economic Man / John Laurent
- 3. Adam Smith's Theory of Human Nature / Athol Fitzgibbons
- 4. Malthus on Indolence / John Pullen
- 5. Charles Darwin on Human Nature / John Laurent
- 6. Alfred Marshall on Homo oeconomicus: Evolution versus Utilitarianism? / Peter Groenewegen
- 7. Kropotkin and Reclus: Geographers, Evolution and 'Mutual Aid' / Rob Knowles
- 8. Sounding the Trumpet: T. A. Jackson on Darwin, Marx and Human Existence / Erin McLaughlin-Jenkins
- 9. Kenneth Boulding: Man of Images / Richard Joseph
- 10. Fritz Machlup: 'How One Thing Led to Another' / Donald Lamberton
- 11. Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Homo oeconomicus: The Concept of Universal Nomadism / Jason Potts.