A century from now economists will name Charles Darwin, not Adam Smith, as the intellectual founder of the discipline, because Darwin's vision of the competitive process is more accurate and descriptive than Smith's (as channeled by neoclassical economics).

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Robert Frank

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in time we'll recognize that Darwin's vision of the competitive process was just a lot more accurate and descriptive than Smith's was

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Robert Frank on Competition, Government, and Darwin 09/12/2011EconTalk
Created: 6/17/2026, 9:48:29 AM

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