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dc.contributor.authorHodgson, Geoffrey
dc.contributor.authorKnudsen, T.
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-20T14:01:07Z
dc.date.available2011-10-20T14:01:07Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationHodgson , G & Knudsen , T 2008 , ' In search of general evolutionary principles: why Darwinism is too important to be left to the biologists ' , Journal of Bioeconomics , vol. 10 , no. 1 , pp. 51-69 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10818-008-9030-0
dc.identifier.issn1387-6996
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 425987
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dc.identifier.otherScopus: 42249111698
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/6748
dc.description“The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com” Copyright Springer [Full text of this article is not available in the UHRA]
dc.description.abstractBioeconomics emphasizes the common ontological ground between economics and biology. However, this does not necessarily mean that both disciplines collapse into one. Instead it is proposed here that Darwinism provides a general, meta-theoretical framework for dealing with complex evolving systems, consisting of populations of varied and replicating entities, which are found in both nature and human society. There is no alternative to the core Darwinian principles of variation, selection and inheritance to explain the evolution of such systems. Neither the actual existence of human intentionality, nor the hypothetical existence of Lamarckian processes of acquired character inheritance, offer a barrier to the use of Darwinian explanations. However, while Darwinian principles are always necessary to explain complex evolving population systems, they are never sufficient on their own. Such a generalized Darwinism can accommodate several different stances found in the literature on bioeconomics and elsewhere.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Bioeconomics
dc.subjectbioeconomics
dc.subjectgeneralized Darwinism
dc.subjectcomplex systems
dc.subjectintentionality
dc.titleIn search of general evolutionary principles: why Darwinism is too important to be left to the biologistsen
dc.contributor.institutionSocial Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Accounting, Finance and Economics
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