Evolution and Economics

Such a doctrine as an Evolutionist Economics would promote the kind of development that, as has been previously discussed, constitutes the arc of Human History--the progressive efforts of the species of an Adaptation Of its environment, facilitated by novelties such as a versatile thumb, spanning the sewing of the first clothing, and the rubbing together of two stones to produce fire, to the Apollo mission that lands a Human on the Moon.  Now, very little of such a doctrine is evident in Smith's system, with the closest approximation--Division of Labor--undercut by an emphasis on Market activity as a means to accumulating individual Wealth.  Marxism comes closer, insofar as it promotes a collectivization of ownership of the Human environment, only to revert to the Capitalist goal of individual leisure.  However, Marx and Engels do implicitly present a better approximation of Evolutionist values--as collaborators, in conjunction with those who help publish and spread their writings.  Those efforts anticipate the Collectivist Techne that has characterized Human Evolution.  Still, to date, an Evolutionist Economics is no more than a hypothetical alternative to the two doctrines that have dominated recent Human history.  But, given that between Darwin's discoveries of pre-Human Natural History, and the Human extraterrestrial ventures, Evolutionism has become the most comprehensive concept of the species, from which it follows that the Economic doctrine that it entails is now the most relevant one, with respect to which Capitalism and Socialism are becoming obsolete.