Cargando…
Nature : an economic history /
From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
©2004.
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhum. |
|---|---|
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 445 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-429) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400826490 1400826497 069112793X 9780691127934 9780691115276 0691115273 9786612129568 6612129565 1282129562 9781282129566 |