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The title is of course a play on the popularized version of the Shakespearean line ‘The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers’ in Henry VI (Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2). I am in no way advocating actual murders. Some of my friends are economists. Actually, many. It would suffice merely to replace the economists in their business school jobs with evolutionary psychologists.
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‘First, kill all the economists…’ : the insufficiency of microeconomics and the need for evolutionary psychology in the study of management†
Introduction to the Special Issue
Article first published online: 27 MAR 2006
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1286
Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Kanazawa, S. (2006), ‘First, kill all the economists…’ : the insufficiency of microeconomics and the need for evolutionary psychology in the study of management. Manage. Decis. Econ., 27: 95–101. doi: 10.1002/mde.1286
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Abstract
Microeconomics and its model of the singular and unitary actor can no longer adequately explain organizational behavior now that there are men and women in corporations. Evolutionary psychology, with its premise of fundamental and inherent sex differences, is necessary to replace microeconomics as the predominant theoretical perspective in business and management schools. The recent Safeway fiasco illustrates the danger of continuing to use microeconomics in the study of management in the 21st century. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.