======================= HES POSTING ================= 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 [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]