Nature an economic history.

• Main Author: Vermeij, Geerat J
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2009
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Agriculture; Arthropod; Bacteria; Biomass; Biomass (ecology); Biowissenschaften; Bivalvia; Brachiopod; Bryozoa; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory; Calcium carbonate; Cambrian; Carbon dioxide; Carnivore; Cenozoic; Chemical defense; Competition; Crinoid; Crustacean; Deep sea; Devonian; Ecology; Ecology & Evolutionary Biology; Economic aspects; Economic growth; Economic history; Economic unit; Economics; Ecosystem; Evolution; Evolution (Biology); Evolutionsökonomik; Extinction event; Fungus; Gastropoda; Geologie; Great power; Greenhouse gas; Herbivore; Hermit crab; Insect; Larva; Life Sciences; Mammal; Mesozoic; Metabolism; Methane; Microorganism; Molecule; Natur; Natural history; Natural history > Economic aspects; Nitrogen; North America; Nutrient; Ordovician; Organism; Paleozoic; Pathogen; Permian; Photosynthesis; Phytoplankton; Plankton; Population size; Positive feedback; Predation; Primary producers; Primary production; Protist; Raw material; SCIENCE; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution; Seaweed; Sediment; Soil; Subsidy; Supply (economics); Technology; Theory; Trade-off; Triassic; Types of volcanic eruptions; Vertebrate; Volcanism; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Year; Competition; Methane; Mesozoic; Deep sea; Permian; Chemical defense; Carbon dioxide; Gastropoda; Biomass; Positive feedback; North America; Economic history; Mammal; Fungus; Seaweed; Devonian; Triassic; Crinoid; Plankton; Technology; Economic growth; Bivalvia; Ecosystem; Greenhouse gas; Cenozoic; Volcanism; Organism; Sediment; Trade-off; Types of volcanic eruptions; Biomass (ecology); Ordovician; Supply (economics); Metabolism; Raw material; Primary producers; Economic unit; Molecule; Larva; Vertebrate; Soil; Nutrient; Population size; Photosynthesis; Pathogen; Brachiopod; Bryozoa; Great power; Crustacean; Phytoplankton; Evolution; Bacteria; Agriculture; Insect; Primary production; Arthropod; Ecology; Nitrogen; Subsidy; Protist; Carnivore; Paleozoic; Cambrian; Extinction event; Year; Calcium carbonate; Hermit crab; Predation; Microorganism; Herbivore
• ISBN: 9780691127934; 9780691115276; 0691115273; 069112793X; 9781400826490; 1400826497
• DOI: 10.1515/9781400826490

From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought--economics, evolution, and history--that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and geology to show how processes common to all economic systems--competition, cooperation, adaptation, and feedback--govern evolution as surely as they do the human economy, and how historical patterns in both human and nonhuman evolution follow from this principle.