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The Darwin economy : liberty, competition, and the common good /
Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will un...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton [N.J.] :
Princeton University Press,
©2011.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's. And the consequences of this fact are profound. Indeed, the failure to recognize that we live in Darwin's world ra. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400839377 1400839378 0691156689 9780691156682 9781400844982 1400844983 1283540045 9781283540049 1283212579 9781283212571 9786613212573 6613212571 |