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I am Ph.D. student in Justice Studies, an interdisciplinary doctoral
program
at Arizona State University. I am doing some reading on evolution and
social and economic theory. In reading Richard Hofstadter's "Social
Darwinism in American Thought" today, I came to a discussion of Darwinism
and economic theory in the late 19th century. Hofstadter discusses
Thorsten
Veblen's essay (p. 154), "Why Is Economics Not An Evolutionary Science,"
published in 1898 in the Quarterly Journal of Economics. He states
Veblen's
belief that economic theory at the time was "pre-Darwinian" because it held
to teleologic premises regarding human nature.
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
School of Justice Studies
Arizona State University
Tempe, Arizona
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