Someone Finally Said It! Evolution + Economics = Evonomics

16Jan08

Been waiting to see someone draw the parallels in a major science publication, and our fellow blogger theConverted gives a nice analysis of Dr. Michael Shermer’s recent SciAm paper on “Evonomics” which apparently comes through for those of us on the thinking side of the room….

But what this really points to is yet another example of hypocrisy that seems to plague both the ‘left’ and the ‘right’, both so-called liberals and conservatives. Each has their own cognitive dissonance here. The conservative right, staunchly defends the idea (for the most part) that the economy is molded “from the bottom up by the invisible hand” of the market, while denying the identical process that occurs in biology.  Of course, the liberal left seems to have the opposite problem – while rightly defending the process of evolution and natural selection, they fail to see this exact same process in the field of economics and claim that the government is needed to manage the market.

Couldn’t have said it better myself!


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  1. 1 Mike on January 17, 2008 said:

    Hey, thanks for the link. As soon as I read that, it was like a light going on. Shermer, though a bit minarchist, is brilliant.

    I’m looking forward to his book, “The Mind of the Market”.

  2. 2 growingfreedom on January 17, 2008 said:

    Mike, thanks for the comment. So many great anarchist writers around! Minarchist or not, Shermer has a strong voice, and its getting some attention. That can only be a good thing. I didn’t know about his upcoming book. I’ll have to keep track of that one.

    Thanks again,

    Alex

  3. 3 theconverted on January 17, 2008 said:

    Yeah, you should check out his stuff at Skeptic.com – he’s done a great deal of debates and article.

    http://www.skeptic.com/


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