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IntroductionGoal and Purpose of this StudyScope and Method of this StudyPlan of this Study1: The Origins of Evolutionary Social TheoryIntroductionNatural Philosophy and the Newtonian World ViewCivil, or Moral PhilosophyPhilosophical History and Political Economy in the Scottish and French EnlightenmentConclusion2: The Development of Evolutionary Social Theory: 1815-1871IntroductionPhilosophy of Science in the Early and Mid-19th CenturyEvolutionary Theory: Biological and Social before DarwinThe Trajectory of Political EconomyDarwin⁰́₉s BiologyThe Ramifications of Darwin⁰́₉s TheoriesConclusion3: Social Evolutionism and Political Economy after DarwinIntroductionDarwin⁰́₉s Impact on Philosophy of ScienceThe More General Theory of SociologyThe End of Political Economy: Marx, Marshall and VeblenConclusion4: The D©♭nouement of Evolutionary Social TheoryIntroductionPhilosophy of Science in the Early and Mid-20th CenturyEvolutionary Social Theory: Marginalization and Reaction in the Social SciencesConclusion5: The Resurrection of Evolutionary Social Theory: Back to the Center?IntroductionPhilosophy of Science: Neo-PositivismOntology and Epistemology: Critical Realism and Critical Common SensismContemporary Evolutionary Biology: An OverviewBiology and Evolutionary Social TheoryToward the Neo-Evolutionary SynthesisConclusion6: Conclusion

"Evolutionary Social Theory and Political Economy traces the origins, extension, marginalization, and revival of evolutionary approaches to social theory from the Enlightenment through the beginning of the 21st century. It demonstrates how changes in understandings of social evolution corresponded to changes in definitions of Political Economy and how both reflected changes in the Philosophy of Science. The book is written for students and researchers alike in all the social sciences. Economists will benefit from understanding how ideas about evolution in Economics corresponded to ideas about evolution in other social sciences and Social Scientists outside of Economics will benefit from understanding how Economics has related to their discipline"--