Evolutionary Theories in the Social Sciences
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Read more →Sources of Industrial Leadership: Studies of Seven Industries. David Mowery and Richard R. Nelson This book describes and analyzes how seven major high-tech industries evolved in the USA, Japan, and Western Europe. The industries covered are machine tools, organic chemical…
Read more →Unto Others: The Evolution & Psychology of Unselfish Behavior by Elliot Sober & David Sloan Wilson In Unto Others, philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson bravely attempt to reconcile altruism, both evolutionary and psychological, with the scientific discoveries…
Read more →I will be teaching a Ph.D. seminar next April, which I have tentatively titled “Evolutionary Theories of Organization.” In preparation for the seminar, I started to look for a place on the web that collects information about Evolutionary Theories in…
Read more →This is a classic in evolutionary economics. Nelson and Winter "argue that the emphasis in theorizing about ('modelling')competition should be on the analysis of evolutionary and revolutionary change (the 'perennial gale of creative destruction,' as Schumpeter put it), ratherthan on the conditions…
Read more →Johann Peter Murmann: Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" is the most widely read and cited book in the philosophy and sociology of science. If you want an philosophical foundation for an evolutionary view, this is the book you should read…
Read more →Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell If you are interested in evolutionary theories of organizations, this is a new collection of essays that you want to take a look at. Click on the cover for a…
Read more →Synopsis Kaufman, a MacArthur Fellow and visionary pioneer of the science of complexity, offers a brilliant account of a new scientifc revolution that rivals Darwin's theory of importance. The book illuminates this new paradigm as it weaves together the excitement of discovery…
Read more →In this "artful, informative, and delightful" (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, Jared Diamond convincingly argues that geographical and environmental factors shaped the modern world. Societies that had had a head start in food production advanced beyond the hunter-gatherer…
Read more →Evolutionary Innovations: The Business of Biotechnology by Maureen D. McKelvey This book examines the initial commercial uses of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering is one of the most modern, controversial and dynamic of the science based technologies. It is not an…
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