Darwin's invisible hand: Market competition, evolution and the firm

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 90, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Johnson, Dominic D P ^a   Price, Michael E ^b   Van Vugt, Mark ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Competition; Cooperation; Darwin; Evolution; Firms; Human nature

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879605754     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2012.12.016     Document Type: Article

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