Armin W Schulz

Structure, Evidence, and Heuristic

Evolutionary Biology, Economics, and the Philosophy of Their Relationship

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first systematic treatment of the philosophy of science underlying evolutionary economics. It does not advocate an evolutionary approach towards economics, but rather assesses the epistemic value of appealing to evolutionary biology in economics more generally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780367465902
• ISBN-10: 0367465906
• Artikelnr.: 69983067

Autorenporträt

Armin W. Schulz is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Kansas. His research concerns the implications of evolutionary biological considerations for the social and cognitive sciences. He is the author of Efficient Cognition: The Evolution of Representational Decision Making (2018), and over 20 published papers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: Three Forms of Evolutionary Economics
Chapter 2: Economic Choice as a Selective Process (The Structural Project
I)
Chapter 3: Market Competition as a Selective Process (The Structural
Project II)
Chapter 4: Of Macaques and Men: The Comparative Approach towards Economic
Decision Making (The Evidential Project I)
Chapter 5: Not All the Same: The Selection-Based Approach towards Economic
Chapter 6: Equilibrium Modeling: Economics, Ecology, and Evolution (The
Heuristic Project)
Conclusion