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This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the major key
concepts common to economics and evolutionary biology. Written by a
group of philosophers of science, biologists and economists, it
proposes analyses of the meaning of twenty-five concepts from the
viewpoint respectively of economics and of evolutionary biology
-each followed by a short synthesis emphasizing major discrepancies
and commonalities. This analysis is surrounded by chapters
exploring the nature of the analogy that connects evolution and
economics, and chapters that summarize the major teachings of the
analyses of the keywords. Most scholars in biology and in economics
know that their science has something in common with the other one,
for instance the notions of competition and resources. Textbooks
regularly acknowledge that the two fields share some history -
Darwin borrowing from Malthus the insistence on scarcity of
resources, and then behavioral ecologists adapting and transforming
game theory into evolutionary game theory in the 1980s, while
Friedman famously alluded to a Darwinian process yielding the
extant firms. However, the real extent of the similarities, the
reasons why they are so close, and the limits and even the nature
of the analogy connecting economics and biological evolution,
remain inexplicit. This book proposes basis analyses that can
sustain such explication. It is intended for researchers, grad
students and master students in evolutionary and in economics, as
well as in philosophy of science.
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