What’s More Likely? Economicus Was Created by Evolution or by God

Edward Morey ()

Chapter Chapter 3 in Deconstructing Behavior, Choice, and Well-being, 2023, pp 73-78 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract God! Evolution is driven by the survival of genesgenes/traits; its objective is not to produce happy gene-containers, or WB optimizers. It’s typically incremental; it gravitates toward a local best rather than the bestest best (the global best). In contrast, economicus appeared in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain, a Christian creationist world where man was unique and in God’s image.

Keywords: Homo-economicus; Evolution; Protestant creationism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-36712-0_3

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