LEADER 04719nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910222193003321 005 20211007024826.0 010 $a9786612129568 010 $a1-282-12956-2 010 $a1-4008-2649-7 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400826490 035 $a(CKB)3240000000126491 035 $a(EBL)445564 035 $a(OCoLC)521225147 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000571558 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11350316 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000571558 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10618761 035 $a(PQKB)10699465 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000340775 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11241898 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000340775 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10388383 035 $a(PQKB)11038106 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36274 035 $a(DE-B1597)446365 035 $a(OCoLC)979834829 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400826490 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445564 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284085 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL212956 035 $a(PPN)170235858 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445564 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000126491 100 $a20040226d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aNature $ean economic history /$fGeerat J. Vermeij 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (460 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-12793-X 311 0 $a0-691-11527-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [321]-429) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter 1. Economy and Evolution: A Road Map --$tChapter 2. The Evolving Economy --$tChapter 3. Human and Nonhuman Economies Compared --$tChapter 4. The Economics of Everyday: Consumption and the Role of Enemies in Nature --$tChapter 5. The Economics of Everyday: Production and the Role of Resources --$tChapter 6. The Ingredients of Power and Opportunity: Technology and Organization --$tChapter 7. The Ingredients of Power and Opportunity: The Environment --$tChapter 8. The Geography of Power and Innovation --$tChapter 9. Breaking Down and Building Up: The Role of Disturbance --$tChapter 10. Patterns in History: Toward Greater Reach and Power --$tChapter 11. The Future of Growth and Power --$tAppendix 1. Abbreviations --$tAppendix 2. The Geological Time Scale --$tNotes --$tLiterature Cited --$tIndex 330 $aFrom 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. Using a wealth of examples of evolutionary innovations, Vermeij argues that evolution and economics are one. Powerful consumers and producers exercise disproportionate controls on the characteristics, activities, and distribution of all life forms. Competition-driven demand by consumers, when coupled with supply-side conditions permitting economic growth, leads to adaptation and escalation among organisms. Although disruptions in production halt or reverse these processes temporarily, they amplify escalation in the long run to produce trends in all economic systems toward greater power, higher production rates, and a wider reach for economic systems and their strongest members. Despite our unprecedented power to shape our surroundings, we humans are subject to all the economic principles and historical trends that emerged at life's origin more than 3 billion years ago. Engagingly written, brilliantly argued, and sweeping in scope, Nature: An Economic History shows that the human institutions most likely to preserve opportunity and adaptability are, after all, built like successful living things. 606 $aNatural history$xEconomic aspects 606 $aScience$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aNatural history$xEconomic aspects. 615 0$aScience$xEconomic aspects. 676 $a576.8 686 $a42.05$2bcl 700 $aVermeij$b Geerat J.$f1946-$01055561 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910222193003321 996 $aNature$92489080 997 $aUNINA