Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, Volume 7 (Advances in Austrian Economics)
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Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, Volume 7 (Advances in Austrian Economics)

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Author: R. KopplPublisher: Emerald PublishingHardcover:ISBN 10: 076231138XISBN 13: 978-0762311385The contributors to this volume seriously engage issues in the crossroads where biology, psychology, and economics meet. The volume makes several important contributions to the area and provides an overview of the current state of knowledge. Biologist David Sloan Wilson, psychologists Robert Kurzban and C.A. Aktipis, economists Geoffrey Hodgson, Paul Rubin and Evelyn Gick, and jurist David Friedman consider altruism, selfishness, group selection, methodological individualism, dominance hierarchies, and other issues relating evolutionary psychology to economics. Several contributors, such as Viktor Vanberg and Brian Loasby, pay special attention to the role of F. A. Hayek and other "Austrian" thinkers in shaping evolutionary approaches to economic theory. Theoretical biologist Deby Cassill relates her revolutionary theory of "skew selection" in biology to perennial issues in political econom

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