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From Mechanical to Biological Analogies

David Simpson

Chapter 6 in Rethinking Economic Behaviour, 2000, pp 69-77 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract ‘The economy responds to changes in policy not so much like a machine responding to a control, but more like an animal being poked with a stick.’

Keywords: Biological Evolution; Animal Community; Reactive Manner; Biological Analogy; Human Economic Activity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230513556_6

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