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Individual separateness or universal scheme?

A note on neo-darwinian vs. non-darwinian evolutionary social science

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  1. Department of Economics, Ohio State University at Mansfield, 44906, Mansfield, OH

    Elias L. Khalil

  2. University of Freiburg, Germany

    Elias L. Khalil

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E. L. Khalil is an assistant professor of economics at Ohio State University, Mansfield, and Humboldt research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Economic Evolution, University of Freiburg, Germany. He has several published articles on the foundation of economics, ethics and economics, ecological economics, and the theory of the firm. He acknowledges the comments of two anonymous referees.

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Khalil, E.L. Individual separateness or universal scheme?. Human Nature 6, 91–94 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02734138

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