The Current Evidence for Hayek’s Cultural Group Selection Theory

Libertarian Papers 2:45 (2010)
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In this article I summarize Friedrich Hayek’s cultural group selection theory and describe the evidence gathered by current cultural group selection theorists within the behavioral and social sciences supporting Hayek’s main assertions. I conclude with a few comments on Hayek and libertarianism

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