Neo-Classical Economics and Evolutionary Theory: Strange Bedfellows?
PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:174 - 183 (1992)
| Abstract | Microeconomic theory and the theory of natural selection share salient features. This has encouraged economics to appeal to the character of evolutionary theory in defending the adequacy of microeconomics, despite its evident weaknesses as an explanatory or predictive theory. This paper explores the differences and similarities between these two theories and the phenomena they treat in order to assess the force of the economist's appeal to evolutionary theory as a model for how economic theory should proceed. | |||||||||
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