Nature :: an economic history /

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and...

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1. Verfasser: Vermeij, Geerat J., 1946- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2004.
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Zusammenfassung:From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhum.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 445 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-429) and index.
ISBN:9781400826490
1400826497
069112793X
9780691127934
9780691115276
0691115273
9786612129568
6612129565
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9781282129566

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