1/ Leftist economics is like creationism. Rightist (in the sense of fascist-corporatist) is like Lamarckianism.
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2/ They lead to welfare and militarist flavors of cronyism respectively.
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3/ Critics of capitalism like to throw (unflattering) Darwinian metaphors around, but very little of that actually exists.
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4/ In a truly Darwinist economy, you wouldn't have corporations. They are NOT analogous to evolvable organisms if you think metaphor through
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5/ The only metaphor that works is product/service design IP as genotype, instances in use as phenotype.
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7/ The only way this can really happen is tinkering/bricolage/hacking by end users. This means closest thing to economic Darwinism is....
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employees breaking off to run their own (slightly-different) show fits this; 'traitorous eight' etc etc
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also lotsa 'horizontal gene transfer' in world of orgs/ideas (& more horiz-trait-xfer in natural world being discovered over time)
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