Marx, Engels and Economic Evolution
- 1 July 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in International Journal of Social Economics
- Vol. 19 (7/8/9) , 121-128
- https://doi.org/10.1108/eum0000000000491
Abstract
Marx is widely regarded today as an “evolutionary” economist. However, what is clear from a close examination of the writings of both Marx and Engels is that they did not actually take Darwin′s theory of natural selection on board. Consequently, if their theory of socio‐economic change is evolutionary, it is not so in a Darwinian sense. Considers the different sense in which the economics of Marx can be regarded as “evolutionary” and the distance between Darwinian and Marxian conceptions of natural or social change.Keywords
This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
- Schumpeter versus Darwin: In re MalthusSouthern Economic Journal, 1989
- Economics and InstitutionsPublished by University of Pennsylvania Press ,1988
- The myth of the Darwin-Marx letterHistory of Political Economy, 1982
- Marx and Schumpeter on Capitalism's Creative Destruction: A Comparative RestatementThe Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1980
- Marx and DarwinHistory of Political Economy, 1977
- The origin of theOrigin revisitedJournal of the History of Biology, 1977
- MALTHUS AND THE EVOLUTIONISTS: THE COMMON CONTEXT OF BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL THEORYPast & Present, 1969
- Economic Evolution: Dialectical and DarwinianJournal of Political Economy, 1934