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A new automated production line and a decades-old manually-tended line standing side by side in a bright manufacturing hall, their output pallets converging onto one shared takeaway conveyor, one pallet from the automated line just settling into place while the older line's pallet is still arriving with its position lamp still amber

Selection Accounting: The Price Equation Runs the Economy

Biology's Price equation and economics' productivity decompositions are the same accounting identity, discovered twice. Paper No. 1 of The Evolutionary Economics Papers states the bridge, the numbers, and the null the field forgot to check.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 30, 2026 · 13 min read

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