Sociobiology and Bioeconomics

The Theory of Evolution in Biological and Economic Theory

356 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Sociobiology, Theory of Evolution, and Bioeconomics Introduction.- I Neo-Darwinian Synthesis, Sociobiology, and the Economy of Nature.- 1 Darwinian Monism: The Economy of Nature.- 2 Coercion.- 3 Does the Second Law of Thermodynamics Refute the Neo-Darwinian Synthesis?.- II Natural Selection and Developmental Systems: Redrawing the Boundaries Between Genetic and Non-Genetic Factors of Evolution.- 4 Evolutionary and Developmental Formation: Politics of the Boundary.- 5 The Gene Is Dead - Long Live the Gene! Conceptualizing Genes the Constructionist Way.- III Redrawing the Boundaries Between the Narratives of Evolutionary Biology and the Narratives of Hermeneutics, Mythology, and Philosophy.- 6 The Role of Hermeneutics in Biology.- 7 Science and Mythology: a New "metaxu"?.- 8 What Is the Impact of a Philosophically Based Criticism of Socio-Biology on the Sientific Community?.- IV Synergetics, Symbiosis and Cooperation in Sociology and Biology.- 9 Synergetics in Sociology and Biology.- 10 Symbiosis, Mutualism and Cooperation in Biological Evolution.- V Evolutionary Biology and Economic Theory.- 11 Are Economic Systems Like Organisms?.- 12 Darwinism and Economic Theory.- 13 Evolutionary Economics and Evolutionary Biology.- Conclusion.- 14 The Theory of Evolution as Sociobiology and Bioeconomics A Critique of Its Claim to Totality.- List of Authors.- Index of Names.

• Reihe: Ethical Economy
• Themen: Gesellschaft und Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie und Anthropologie Soziologie
• ISBN: 9783540653806
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.02.1999
• Größe: 241 x 160 mm
• Verlag: Springer
• Herausgegeben von: Peter Koslowski