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Protected: The Making of “Rethinking the Theoretical Foundation of Economics”

Discussion between authors of a revolutionary new article

David Sloan Wilson, Dennis Snower

Neoclassical Economics is Dead. What Comes Next?

The answer lies in alternative economic practices.

Steven Klees

Capitalism’s Core Problem: The Case for Universal Property

Capitalism’s most grie­vous flaws are, at root, problems of property rights and must be ad­dres­­sed at that level.

Peter Barnes

Five Ways to Build a New Macroeconomics

What is taught in today’s graduate programs as macroeconomics is entirely useless for the kinds of questions we are interested in.

J. W. Mason

Vaccine Greed: Capitalism Without Competition Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Exploitation

Among the pandemic’s many lessons, however, is that greed can easily work against the common good.

Jag Bhalla

Why Elon Musk Isn’t Superman

The Betting Economy vs. The Operating Economy

Tim O'Reilly

How Redistribution Makes America Richer

Modeling the numbers on bottom-up and middle-out economics.

Steve Roth

To Tackle Inequality, We Need to Start Talking About Where Wealth Comes From

Thatcherite narrative on wealth creation has gone unchallenged for decades.

Laurie Macfarlane

Universal Basic Income, Racial Justice, Climate Justice

UBI can help create a broad-based collaborative security for present and future crises.

Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Why Behavioral Economics Needs Behavioral Biology

Traditional models of rational choice typically ignore Darwin’s central insight—that life is graded on the curve.

Robert Frank

My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist

There is a new world that is fast-overtaking us, and it needs to be seen and explained on its own terms.

David Bollier

Why Does Inequality Produce High Crime and Low Trust?

Shuffling of resources so that the worst off are lifted up and the top end is brought down can dramatically increase trust.

Daniel Nettle

Why Immigration Drives Innovation

Economic history reveals one unmistakable psychological pattern.

Joseph Henrich

Economist Dennis Snower Says Economics Nears a New Paradigm

Beyond any shadow of a doubt, there is a change in the air, as economics nears its Copernican Moment.

Dennis Snower

Advice to an Aspiring Economist: The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention

This is a revolution in economics and one which is only beginning.

Alan Kirman

Do Billionaires Destroy Democracy and Capitalism?

The U.S. simply needs to look back at history, to our Gilded Age, to see what can be done to curb wealth growth.

Philip Kotler

Why Behavioral Economics is Itself Biased

We need to stop making glib assumptions about what other people want and how they can best achieve their objectives.

Jason Collins

Monopoly Was Invented to Reveal the Toxic Greed of Capitalism

It was a rags-to-riches fabrication that ironically exemplified Monopoly’s implicit values.

Kate Raworth

How to Move Beyond Utopian Socialism and Libertarianism

Harnessing markets and government together to serve the common good.

Geoffrey Hodgson

Ayn Rand Meets Her Match: David Sloan Wilson Fights Fiction with Fiction

A devastating critique of Ayn Rand’s philosophy of Objectivism and its impact on the world.

David Sloan Wilson

Why Free Market Ideology is a Double Lie

The free market, it appears, is not about freedom. It’s about power.

Blair Fix

What Do Economists Mean When They Talk About “Capital Accumulation”?

In every other science, this inability to measure the key category of the theory would be devastating. But not in the science of economics.

Shimshon Bichler, Jonathan Nitzan

The Sweet Spot Between Laissez-Faire and Centralized Planning

A conversation about the “Third Way” between David Sloan Wilson and Tim O’Reilly.

Tim O'Reilly

Philip Kotler: Marketing is the Original Behavioral Economics

Social marketing provides a more holistic approach to influencing behavioral change.

Philip Kotler

Why the Richest, Freest Economies Belong to Countries With Large Powerful States

Flourishing market economy requires, not small government, but high-quality government.

Brink Lindsey

Economist’s Open Letter to Economists About Race

The Chief Economist to the AFL-CIO seizes a teachable moment.

William Spriggs

How to Disguise Racism and Oligarchy: Use Economics

James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics.

Lynn Parramore

Evidence for Tribalism in Economics

While economists like to pretend otherwise, humans are social animals.

Blair Fix

Using Evolutionary Social Science to Deal with Pandemics

Humans create and thrive in a world too complicated to understand

Michael Muthukrishna

COVID-19 and the Next Evolution of Economics

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