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>What if anything has been written since about the connection, if any, 
>between economic theory and evolution theory?  Can anyone lead me to some 
>later or  current discussions about this?  What about Veblen's idea, does 
it 
>still make sense today? 
> 
>David C. Larkin 
 
Mr. Larkin is interested in the distinction between evolutionary processes 
without an end-in-view (that is, without a teleological perspective) and 
wants to know whether Veblen's idea that a-without-teleological-perspective 
is more authentic to a true Darwinian than the bastard versions that are 
often used to prove history is on our side. 
 
The short answer is "yes" Veblen got it right.  The professor who 
successfully makes this case is G. Hodgson, Economics and Evolution, Polity 
Press. 
 
I agree with him on his interpretation of Veblen.  Veblen was correct, 
economics as was the case with most social sciences was not an evolutionary 
science in the same way that evolutionary biology was. 
 
L. Moss 
 
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