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
Browsing: Human Nature
Evidence for Tribalism in Economics
While economists like to pretend otherwise, humans are social animals.
Using Evolutionary Social Science to Deal with Pandemics
Humans create and thrive in a world too complicated to understand
Michael Muthukrishna
New Ecological Economics: Superorganism and Ultrasociality
How the agricultural revolution changed the trajectory of our social and economic evolution.
Lisi Krall
How Hunter-Gatherers May Hold the Key to our Economic Future
We need to rethink our relationships with the workplace.
James Suzman
Desculpe Adam Smith, o pai da economia é Charles Darwin. Aqui está o porquê.
Darwin viu muito mais claramente a relação entre auto-interesse individual e o bem-estar do grupo.
Robert Frank
Tyler Cowen and Joseph Henrich Talk Economics, Big Brains, Cultural Evolution, and WEIRD People
How culture Is driving human evolution, domesticating our species, and making us smarter
Tyler Cowen
Puzzled by the Popular Support for Trump? Evolutionary Behavioral Economics Has an Answer
A key to the answer lies in an evolved human mentality: avoiding loss by gambling.
Lixing Sun
Did Money Eat Our Brains?
Our heads got bigger for two million years. For at least ten thousand years, they’ve been getting smaller. Is the Money-Zombie Apocalypse upon us?
Steve Roth
“My Nation First!” is No Better than “Me First!”
Blatant selfishness is toxic, regardless of the scale that it occurs.
David Sloan Wilson
Why Anger at Elites Was Channelled Towards Voting for Brexit
How behavioral economics explains voting for Brexit
Chris Dillow
We’re Not as Selfish as Economists Think We Are. Here’s the Proof.
Why the pessimism about human nature is unwarrented
George Monbiot
It’s Time to Base Economics on Human Nature, Not Homo Economicus
How human nature defies the laws of economics
Jonathan Rowe
How Economists Turned Us Blind to Our Own Goodness
Cultivating conscience: how good laws make good people
Lynn Stout
Would Darwin be a Socialist or a Libertarian?
A debate about regulation and competition
Michael Shermer
Science Proves Ayn Rand Wrong About Altruism and Laissez-Faire Economics
Evolution clearly shows how altruism trumps selfishness.
Denise Cummins
Economist Says Higher-IQ People are Nicer and More Cooperative
How group intelligence predicts success
Garett Jones
Apes Make Irrational Economic Decisions – That Includes You
Behavioral economics meets evolved psychology
Christopher Krupenye
What Happens When You Believe in Ayn Rand and Modern Economic Theory
The reality of unfettered self-interest
Denise Cummins
Are We Cooperative or Competitive? Our View Shapes the Economy
Group membership, kindness, and social outcomes
Sandra Aamodt
How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth
A review of the new book Ultrasociety
Cameron K. Murray
Anthropologist Says Donald Trump and Alpha Chimp Play the Same Political Game
Every lasting chimpanzee alpha male is an expert in intuitive politics
Christopher Boehm
How Do the Economic Elites Get the Idea That They ‘Deserve’ More?
The natural tendency toward discrimination and inequality
Yanis Varoufakis
Martin Luther King Jr. Asked This Economist a Profound Question
The price of inequality in society.
Francois Badenhorst
Three Evolutionary Ideas to Change the Future of Economics
Taming market errors with human nature
Jag Bhalla
Do Outside Enemies Make Us Nicer to our Neighbors?
The relationship between competition and leadership
Brian R. Spisak
Ayn Rand vs. Anthropology
Did natural selection favor individualists or altruists?
Eric Michael Johnson
