Evolutionary Psychology and Economic Theory, Volume 7 (ADVANCES IN AUSTRIAN ECONOMICS)

Contiutos to this volume seiously engage issues in the cossoads wheeiology, psychology, and economics meet. The volume makes seveal impotant contiutions to the aea and povides an oveview of the cuent state of knowledge. Biologist David Sloan Wilson, psychologists Roet Kuzan and C.A. Aktipis, economists Geoffey Hodgson, Paul Ruin and Evelyn Gick, and juist David Fiedman conside altuism, selfishness, goup selection, methodological individualism, dominance hieachies, and othe issueselating evolutionay psychology to economics. Seveal contiutos, such as Vikto Vaneg and Bian Loasy, pay special attention to theole of F. A. Hayek and othe "Austian" thinkes in shaping evolutionay appoaches to economic theoy. Theoeticaliologist Dey Cassillelates heevolutionay theoy of "skew selection" iniology to peennial issues in political economy. The volume includes a symposium on goup selection and methodological individualism. In an impotant pape, D. G. Whitman agues that goup selection and methodological individualism ae "compatile and complementay." Comments fom Elliot Soe & David Sloan Wilson, Richad Langlois, Todd Zywicki, and Adam Giffod offe a heteogeneous set ofesponses to Whitman's agument. Roge Koppl's intoduction constitutes aeview essay and includes an agument that "Austian" economists have a compaative advantage ininging the Vestehen tadition of social thought into contact withecent wok iniology and evolutionay psychology.