Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic - Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship (Hardcover)

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally. The author divides work in evolutionary economics into three distinct, albeit related, forms: a structural form, an evidential form, and a heuristic form. He then analyzes five examples of work in evolutionary economics falling under these three forms. For the structural form, he examines the parallelism between natural selection and economic decision making, and the parallelism between natural selection and market competition. For the evidential form, he looks at the relationship between animal and human economic decision making, and the evolutionary explanation of diversity in human economic decision making. Finally, for the heuristic form, he focuses on the plausibility of equilibrium modeling in evolutionary ecology and economics. In this way, he shows that linking evolutionary biology and economics can make for a powerful methodological tool that can enable progress in our understanding of various economics questions. Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic will be of interest to scholars and advanced students working in philosophy of science, philosophy of social science, evolutionary biology, and economics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
Release date:	May 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Armin W Schulz
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	228
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-46590-2
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-367-46590-6
Barcode:	9780367465902

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