On the evolution of Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary economics
探讨了凡勃伦演化经济学的起源，指出他在1897年后摒弃生物还原论和马克思主义，转而采纳达尔文式的多层级解释框架，对理解经济学与社会学的交叉有参考价值。
This article addresses the origins of Thorstein Veblen's evolutionary economics, as announced in his 1898 essay 'Why is economics not an evolutionary science?.' Before 1897, and partly under the influence of C. Lloyd Morgan, Veblen rejected biological reductionism. Veblen's 1897 endorsement of a critique of Marxism by Max Lorenz shows that he found Karl Marx's account of human action too limiting. By this time, Veblen had also rejected the idea of either the individual or society as exclusive foundations for social science. Instead, he embraced an evolutionary framework of explanation along Darwinian lines, involving multiple levels of explanation and emergent properties. Copyright 1998 by Oxford University Press.