2023 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study of the influence of biological evolution on the dawn of neoclassical economics in Britain and the United States in the 1890s and 1930s
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21K01409
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 07020:Economic doctrines and economic thought-related
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| Research Institution | Otaru University of Commerce |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2021-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Alfred Lotka / Paul Samuelson / Alfred Marshall / Evolutionism / Evolutionary Ecnomics |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
In this study, we rearranged the dawn of economics from the perspective of biology and physics with a focus on thermodynamics, and clarified the significance of the economics market for Lotka's research, which pursued thermodynamic expressions of ecosystems. In this research plan, we organized Lotka's life and research, which have not received much attention in Japan, and discussed the background behind the emergence of the Lotka-Volterra equation.
The relationship between Lotka and Samuelson itself has been dealt with in the past, but in terms of its resolution within the neoclassical school of evolutionary theory, it has rarely been dealt with except by Hirshlifer (1977). This study treated this issue as one branch of the treatment of evolutionary theory within economics since the 18th century.
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| Free Research Field |
経済思想史
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| Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements |
本研究は、近年の進化経済学的アプローチが、突然現れたものではなく主流派経済学とほぼ同時期に、社会経済現象への科学的アプローチの一つとして生まれたことを示すためのプロジェクトの一部である。研究代表者はこれまでも、ドイツ、オーストリア、イギリスでの進化論と経済学の関係を通史的に研究してきたが、本研究では20世紀初頭に経済学の中心がアメリカに移る直前に起きた経済学と進化論の関係の転換点に注目したものである。
この研究により、経済学の開発目的、あるいは現在の主流派経済学の代替案を考える場合に、明確なアイディアを提供することにつながっている。
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