or refer to Darwin. We focus on the attitude of economists towards Darwin's theory of social evolution – an issue he … considered as central to his theory. We show that economists refer to and mention Darwin as a biologist and neglect or ignore his … theory of social and cultural evolution. Three types of reference are identified: first, economists view and quote Darwin as …

discusses three very old “cosmologies” in Western thought, how these play out in economic theory, and how evolutionary biology …