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Book Reviews ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 BOOK REVIEWS 10.1177/1086026604264883REVIEW Mary E. Clark. In Search of Human Nature. London: Routledge, 2003. Some books seem to cry out to be written. During the past three decades, we have seen not only a resurrection of the sort of laissez-faire economics that domi nated the 19th and early 20th centuries but also an associated political will to legiti mate the huge inequalities of wealth, fulfilment, and opportunity thus created and an affection for doing so by reference to arguments very like those of the old social Darwinists. The rise of the more highly reductive types of evolutionary psychol ogy, often publicly promoted in self-serving ways by right-wing political interests rather than correctly and dispassionately presented as theory by evolutionary biol ogists themselves, has been hugely influential and has surely helped rein in popular optimism about Leftist political alternatives and the human future more broadly. Whilst some thinkers have responded with modest holding operations, such as the brisk march to mild social co-operationism found in Peter Singer’s (2000) A Dar winian Left, the crisis of political confidence that has afflicted socialists, social lib- erals, and to some extent greens in recent years is well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Organization & Environment SAGE

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Organization & Environment , Volume 17 (2): 4 – Jun 1, 2004
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ORGANIZATION & ENVIRONMENT / June 2004 BOOK REVIEWS 10.1177/1086026604264883REVIEW Mary E. Clark. In Search of Human Nature. London: Routledge, 2003. Some books seem to cry out to be written. During the past three decades, we have seen not only a resurrection of the sort of laissez-faire economics that domi nated the 19th and early 20th centuries but also an associated political will to legiti mate the huge inequalities of wealth, fulfilment, and opportunity thus created and an affection for doing so by reference to arguments very like those of the old social Darwinists. The rise of the more highly reductive types of evolutionary psychol ogy, often publicly promoted in self-serving ways by right-wing political interests rather than correctly and dispassionately presented as theory by evolutionary biol ogists themselves, has been hugely influential and has surely helped rein in popular optimism about Leftist political alternatives and the human future more broadly. Whilst some thinkers have responded with modest holding operations, such as the brisk march to mild social co-operationism found in Peter Singer’s (2000) A Dar winian Left, the crisis of political confidence that has afflicted socialists, social lib- erals, and to some extent greens in recent years is well

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