* From: Michael Perelman The NC school often does refer to Darwinistic ideas -- not necessarily social darwinism -- to explain how competition works. Firms do not know they are maximizing, but those that do are selected for survival ...
This line is used when people point out that the theory makes assumptions that are ridiculous. I don't know if anyone pushed this idea before Friedman. ^^^^^^ CB: Yes, that's the type of thing I'm thinking about. "Darwinist" ideas in the above social, non-biological context is social darwinist. Oddly I started thinking about this based on a critique of Nietzsche as deriving an atheist philosophy that is propaganda for the ruling classes based on social darwinist notions of the supermen/ruling class being more naturally fit rather than chosen by God. Social darwinism is a broad atheist counter-Marxist movement in bourgeois intellectualdom. But also, the capitalists are atheistic in essential function qua capitalists. NC is a bourgeois atheist discipline ( so to speak, as it were). This makes me wonder if it participates in the broad social darwininst paradigm.
