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Nature: An Economic History
Geerat Vermeij
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Description for Nature: An Economic History
Paperback. From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This work offers an exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: KCS; PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 27. Weight in Grams: 666.
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 nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that ... Read more
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 nonhuman evolution follow from this principle. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691127934
SKU
V9780691127934
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About Geerat Vermeij
Geerat J. Vermeij is Distinguished Professor of Geology at the University of California, Davis. As an evolutionary biologist and paleontologist, he studies shells and the fossil and living animals responsible for building them. His books include "Evolution and Escalation: An Ecological History of Life", "A Natural History of Shells" (both Princeton), and "Privileged Hands". He received a MacArthur Fellowship in ... Read more
Reviews for Nature: An Economic History
Winner of the 2004 Award for Best Professional/Scholarly Book in Geology and Earth Science, Association of American Publishers "Novel and intriguing... [Nature: An Economic History] offers a distinctive point of view and an insightful synthesis that promises to provide the basis of much future work."
Douglas H. Erwin, Science "Vermeij is one of the master naturalists of our time, and his ... Read more
Douglas H. Erwin, Science "Vermeij is one of the master naturalists of our time, and his ... Read more