Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part I Introduction and Conception
1 A Brief Diagnosis
2 On Mechanistic and Biological Metaphors
3 Economic Evolution: A Preliminary
Taxonomy
Part II Evolution in Economics? From
Mandeville to Marshall
4 Political Economy and the Darwinian
Revolution
5 Revolutionary Evolution: Karl Marx
and Frederick Engels
6 Herbert Spencer: The Lost Satellite
7 The Mecca of Alfred Marshall
8 Carl Menger and the Evolution of
Money
Part III Evolution in Economics? Three
Twentieth-Century Theorists
9 Thorstein Veblen and Post-Darwinian
Economics
10 Joseph Schumpeter and the Evolutionary
Process
11 The Evolution of Friedrich Hayek
12 Friedrich Hayek and Spontaneous
Order
Appendix: Group Selection in Modern
Biology
Part IV Towards an Evolutionary Economics
13 Optimization and Evolution
14 Evolution, Indeterminacy and Intention
15 The Problem of Reductionism in
Biology and Economics
16 Bringing Life Back into Economics
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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