The evolution of Darwinian liberalism

Larry Arnhart ()

Journal of Bioeconomics, 2015, vol. 17, issue 1, 3-15

Abstract: From John Locke and Adam Smith to Herbert Spencer and Friedrich Hayek, the central idea of classical liberalism has been the thought that the social orders of morals, markets, laws, and politics can emerge as spontaneous orders—as largely self-regulating and unintended orders arising from the interaction of individuals pursuing their individual ends. Darwinian evolutionary science supports this idea by showing how evolutionary order can arise from the evolution of self-ownership, property, and mammalian sociality and the evolution of exchange and the division of labor. In developing these points, I argue for a Darwinian liberalism. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015

Keywords: Darwinism; Division of labor; Evolutionary psychology; Liberalism; Neuroscience; Property (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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