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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy



auld@qed.econ.queensu.ca wrote:
: Jay Hanson  <jhanson@ilhawaii.net> wrote:

: >By Darwinian lights, Democracy and Capitalism are no more than
: > formalized battles over sex and food. 

: Jay might want to read some of what biologists and economists have written
: on the interaction between genetic and "memetic" evolution in human
: societies, although it is interesting to see him coming down square on
: the side of naive sociobiology. 

Why are his views "naive sociobiology"?

Do you think "non-naive" sociobiology has validity?

As someone who is quite interested in sociobiology (hopefully of non-naive
type) I'd be curious to see your reply to this... 

Yuri.

: He may then want to continue his
: readings by examining the concept that market interactions are not
: zero-sum (and hence not "battles") and the literature on the evolution
: of cooperation.

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