Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution - Hardcover

Hodgson, Geoffrey M.; Knudsen, Thorbj¿rn

 
9780226346908: Darwin's Conjecture: The Search for General Principles of Social and Economic Evolution
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226346900 ISBN 13: 9780226346908
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2010

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Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society - until now. In "Darwin's Conjecture", Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Thorbjorn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist's core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to the application of Darwinism to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking work at long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Geoffrey M. Hodgson is research professor in business studies at the University of Hertfordshire, England, and the author of over a dozen books, including The Evolution of Institutional Economics and How Economics Forgot History. Thorbjorn Knudsen is professor of organization design at the University of Southern Denmark and has an extensive publication record specializing in evolutionary dynamics and adaptive organizations.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226346900
ISBN 13 
9780226346908
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Anzahl der Seiten
304
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