Unfortunately, Maynard Smith is right, both about evolution and about economics.
Maynard Smith later peer reviewed one of Price's papers, and drew inspiration from it.
Maynard Smith showed, however, that for certain values of c, honest signaling can be an evolutionarily stable strategy.
The descriptions of Maynard Smith, in particular, are not too flattering.
Maynard Smith coined the term "kin selection" in an article that ran off with Hamilton's idea without giving him much credit.
Maynard Smith can be credited with what has become known as the "haystack model" of group selection.
He asked Maynard Smith whether he could search for a "strong" theory of variation.
Maynard Smith explains further in his 1982 book Evolution and the Theory of Games.
Maynard Smith, a former engineer and highly competent mathematician, turned to game theory to answer the question.
Maynard Smith agreed with this view in his authoritative textbook.