This paper traces the historical origins of Friedrich A. Hayek's theory of cultural evolution,
and argues that Hayek's evolutionary thought was significantly inspired by Alexander M …

Economics and biology have long been overlapping and mutually enriching fields. We
contribute to this cross-fertilization by spelling out the implications for economic theory of …

Few ideas are in greater need of correction than the common-sense notion that cultures are
born exclusively of the human mind and constitute an entire novelty in the history of life …

This article analyses Darwin's image among economists with a specific focus on his theory
of social evolution as presented in the Descent of Man (1871). We propose an analysis of …

Few terms in the lexicon are less explanatory than Adam Smith's 'invisible hand'. So we
should not really be surprised that it appears only three times in the Smith corpus, and in …

Bu çalışmanın amacı, literatürde bâkir kalan, yönetim tarihi ve yönetim felsefesinde etkili
olan ideolojik yaklaşımları eleştirel bakış açısıyla ortaya çıkarmaktır. İdeolojiler toplum …

Adam Smith has been portrayed as a proto-Darwinist (Hayek, 1967 and Flew, 1985 cited in
Hill, 2001, pp. 17-19; Alvey, this volume), largely based on his account of human …

This bibliography contains about a thousand items that bioeconomists might want to know
about. Many of them have only a peripheral connection with either biology or economics …

Population-in its original sense of the process of peopling-is a topic surprisingly absent from
the huge volume of scholarship on Adam Smith. This topic was central to 18th century moral …

Jacob Viner introduced the term 'sub-rational'to characterize the faculties–human instinct,
sentiment and intuition–that fall between animal instinct and full-blown reason. The Scots …