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Wunderkind wrote:

Below is a link from Mother Jones magazine comparing and contrasting the
viewpoints of these respective people in economics and science.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/12/smith_darwin.html

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"A more serious claim to have influenced Darwin can be made for the
Scottish economist Adam Smith, in his work The Wealth of Nations of
1776. There is a clear analogy between the survival of the corporation
through successful trading and the survival of a hereditary lineage
through advantageous traits. It is known that Darwin read Smith and
those political and social commentators that followed him, and it would
be surprising if these ideas did not lodge in his thoughts. However,
the biological and social and moral worlds were thought at that time to
be completely divorced. Remember, this was a time when even the
existence of an involuntary reflex was considered unthinkable: biology
simply could not overcome conscious will (for example Marshall Hall in
1832 was unable to publish his reflex studies in the Royal Society's
proceedings10). Malthus' views, e.g., were based on the assumption that
the poor were simply lacking in the moral fibre and strength of will.
The extension of this pattern of explanation to the biological world
was a major leap of imagination."

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/precursors/precursnatsel.html

Adam Smith
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/5eca5af9624ed818

WK

Wunderkind wrote:

Below is a link from Mother Jones magazine comparing and contrasting the
viewpoints of these respective people in economics and science.

http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2005/12/smith_darwin.html

But Smith also spoke of the unintended consequences of our actions.

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WK

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