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How Veblen Generalized Darwinism

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  • Geoffrey M. Hodgson

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The inspiration of Darwin on Veblen is well known. However, the manner in which Veblen incorporated Darwinian ideas is inadequately appreciated. Veblen not only adopted Darwinian strictures on the causal explanation of the individual agent but also upheld that Darwinian principles of inheritance and selection applied to individual habits and social institutions. This amounts to the generalization of Darwinian principles to socio-economic evolution.

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  • Geoffrey M. Hodgson, 2008. "How Veblen Generalized Darwinism," Journal of Economic Issues, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(2), pages 399-405, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:jeciss:v:42:y:2008:i:2:p:399-405
    DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2008.11507148
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    1. Danny MacKinnon & Andrew Cumbers & Andy Pike & Kean Birch & Robert McMaster, 2009. "Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation," Economic Geography, Clark University, vol. 85(2), pages 129-150, April.
    2. Wilson David Sloan & Snower Dennis J., 2024. "Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics I: The Multilevel Paradigm," Economics - The Open-Access, Open-Assessment Journal, De Gruyter, vol. 18(1), pages 1-18.
    3. Esra Çeviker Gürakar & Emin Köksal, 2016. "Institutional evolution and economic development in Iran and Turkey," Middle East Development Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 8(1), pages 32-64, January.
    4. George Liagouras, 2016. "From Heterodox Political Economy to Generalized Darwinism," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 48(3), pages 467-484, September.
    5. Noriko Ishida, 2021. "Thorstein Veblen on economic man: toward a new method of describing human nature, society, and history," Evolutionary and Institutional Economics Review, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 527-547, September.

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