Economic Darwinism:

(A) explains why firms persist in inefficient behavior

(B) explains why some inefficient accounting practices persist

(C) explains why marmots eat bears

(D) explains why bears eat marmots

(E) none of the above

Economic Darwinism explains why some inefficient accounting practices persist. Inefficient accounting systems may continue to exist either because they have proved better than other systems or because better systems have not been yet discovered.