Economics and Biology, Geoffr ey M. Hodgson (Ed.), <i>Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1995, xxv + 598 pp., AU$233.75, ISBN 1 8589 8050 X</i>

Laurent, John P.

doi:10.1080/08109029708632096

ScienceOpen: research and publishing network

For Publishers

For Researchers

Blog
About

Search
Advanced search

views

recommends

If you have found this article useful and you think it is important that researchers across the world have access, please consider donating, to ensure that this valuable collection remains Open Access.

Prometheus is published by Pluto Journals, an Open Access publisher. This means that everyone has free and unlimited access to the full-text of all articles from our international collection of social science journals. Furthermore Pluto Journals authors don’t pay article processing charges (APCs).

scite_

Prometheus

Volume 15, Issue 3

Record: found
Abstract: found
Article: found

Is Open Access

Economics and Biology, Geoffr ey M. Hodgson (Ed.), Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 1995, xxv + 598 pp., AU$233.75, ISBN 1 8589 8050 X

Published

book-review

Author(s): John Laurent ^a

Publication date (Print): December 1997

Journal: Prometheus

Publisher: Pluto Journals

Bookmark

Content

Author and article information

Journal

Journal ID (publisher-id): cpro20

Journal ID (archive): CPRO

Title: Prometheus

Subtitle: Critical Studies in Innovation

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Print): 0810-9028

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date (Print): December 1997

Volume: 15

Issue: 3

Pages: 439-442

Affiliations

^a Griffith University , Brisbane , Australia

Article

Publisher ID: 8632096 Coden ID: Prometheus, Vol. 15, No. 3, 1997: pp. 439–442

DOI: 10.1080/08109029708632096

SO-VID: abd9b26c-90d4-434f-b8fd-e86ecaaaa5bb

License:

All content is freely available without charge to users or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles in this journal without asking prior permission of the publisher or the author. Articles published in the journal are distributed under a http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

History

Page count

Figures: 0, Tables: 0, References: 8, Pages: 4

Notes and References

J. Laurent, ‘Evolution and organic analogy’ in R.F. Irvine's ‘Economies’, History of Economics Review, 16, Summer, 1991, pp. 1–9; J. Laurent, ‘Keynes and Darwin’, History of Economics Review, in press.
G. Hodgson, Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1993).
‘What distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is that the architect builds the cell in his mind before he constructs it in wax’ (quoted p. xvii).
S. J. Gould, ‘Darwin's middle road,’, in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton, New York, 1980, pp. 59–68, quote on p. 68.
C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Ward Lock, London, 1911, p. 58, [reprint of 1st edn.]
Hodgson, op. cit., Ref. 2, p. 30.
P. M. Allen, ‘Modelling the coevolution of communications and socioeconomic structure’, prepared for STEP Conference, University of Queensland, (30 November-6 December 1996), p. 17.
C. Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, MacMillan, London, 1875, Ch. 4.

Comments

Comment on this article

[1] J. Laurent, ‘Evolution and organic analogy’ in R.F. Irvine's ‘Economies’, History of Economics Review, 16, Summer, 1991, pp. 1–9; J. Laurent, ‘Keynes and Darwin’, History of Economics Review, in press.

[2] G. Hodgson, Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics, (Polity Press, Cambridge, 1993).

[3] ‘What distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is that the architect builds the cell in his mind before he constructs it in wax’ (quoted p. xvii).

[4] S. J. Gould, ‘Darwin's middle road,’, in The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History, W. W. Norton, New York, 1980, pp. 59–68, quote on p. 68.

[5] C. Darwin, On the Origin of Species, Ward Lock, London, 1911, p. 58, [reprint of 1st edn.]

[6] Hodgson, op. cit., Ref. 2, p. 30.

[7] P. M. Allen, ‘Modelling the coevolution of communications and socioeconomic structure’, prepared for STEP Conference, University of Queensland, (30 November-6 December 1996), p. 17.

[8] C. Darwin, The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, MacMillan, London, 1875, Ch. 4.