The pitfalls of Darwinian "progress". A comment on "Evolvability and progress in evolutionary economics" by Tim Cochrane and James Maclaurin

Journal of Bioeconomics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 325-328

  Schubert, Christian ^a  

^a Growth and Public Policy   (Germany)

Author keywords

Evolvability; Generalized Darwinism; Progress; Well being

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY;

EID: 84883656846     PISSN: 13876996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10818-012-9146-0     Document Type: Article

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