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How to Create Collective Intelligence

Markets, science, and humanity don’t automatically generate solutions.

David Sloan Wilson

Why Inequality Predicts Homicide Rates Better Than Any Other Variable

The surprising factors driving murder rates: income inequality and respect.

Maia Szalavitz

How Hayek’s Evolutionary Theory Disproves His Politics

He was arguing with Stalin, not Norway.

Sam Bowles, David S. Wilson

Economists are Obsessed with “Job Creation.” How about Less Work?

Increased automation has not reduced our workload. Why not? What if it did?

Peter Gray

The Invisible Hook: How Pirate Society Proves Economic Self-Interest Wrong

Pirate bands are radically democratic and egalitarian: Hayek and the evolutionary imperative.

David Sloan Wilson

Cognitive Economics: How Self-Organization and Collective Intelligence Works

The study of self-organizing groups points toward what could be called a cognitive economics.

Geoff Mulgan

How Market Competition Really Works

One of the best models of competitive markets in an economy is an evolutionary one.

Cameron K. Murray

Most ‘Wealth’ Isn’t the Result of Hard Work. It Has Been Accumulated by Being Idle and Unproductive.

It’s time to call the housing crisis what it really is: the largest transfer of wealth in living memory.

Laurie Macfarlane

Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship: Basic Income, Blockchain Cities, and Local Currencies

Towards a new, local, but globally interconnected, digital, collaborative, urban economic model of shared prosperity.

Boyd Cohen

If You Look Behind Neoliberal Economists, You’ll Discover the Rich: How Economic Theories Serve Big Business

The road to serfdom – sponsored by big business

Dániel Oláh

Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy

The economic game is enormously fun for far too few players, and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.

Tim O'Reilly

Yes, Economics Has a Problem with Women

In the news recently we’ve heard about a study of sexist terms used to refer to women economists. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg.

Julie Nelson

Ralph Nader: How CEO Stock Buybacks Parasitize the Economy

Hyper enrichment of a handful of radical corporate state supremacists wasn’t what classical capitalism was supposed to be about.

Ralph Nader

What Will Replace Outdated Left and Right Economic Thinking? The Commons Paradigm.

The commons is about self-organized social systems for managing shared wealth.

David Bollier

Insanely Concentrated Wealth Is Strangling Our Prosperity

Today’s mountains of wealth throttle the very engine of wealth creation itself.

Steve Roth

How the Economics Profession Is Coming to Terms with Its Role in the Great Financial Crisis

It’s time for mainstream economists to relax the defenses and open up a little.

David Orrell

When Wall Street Owns Main Street — Literally

The rise of Wall Street landlords and the decline of homeownership.

Rana Foroohar

People Don’t Actually Want Equality. They Want Fairness.

The invisible hand of egalitarianism.

Paul Bloom

Free Marketeers Defense of CEO Pay and a Rigged System is a Disservice to Free Markets

Two big facts suggest that such a system might well be inefficient.

Chris Dillow

What Peter the Great Discovered in Amsterdam: Inclusivity Creates Wealth

The young Tsar discovered in his travels that commercial prosperity largely derived from open societies.

Nick Cassella

How to Use Fiscal and Monetary Policy to Make Us Rich Again

The easiest way to return to Golden Age tranquility and equality is to empower fiscal policy.

Tom Streithorst

The Economics of Team Success, or How to Waste Money on Big-Name Stars in Pro Football

If money doesn’t buy performance, one practical measure is to promote salary fairness among team members.

Lixing Sun

Why a Consumption Tax May not Make any Sense at All

The devil’s in the (accounting) details — and the economic effects

Steve Roth

How the Postal System and the Printing Press Transformed European Markets

In the sixteenth century European markets opened up as merchant guild monopolies declined.

Prateek Raj

Bribery, Cooperation, and the Evolution of Prosocial Institutions

How the science of cooperation and cultural evolution will give us new tools in combating corruption.

Michael Muthukrishna

Two Big Questions About the Job Guarantee: God, Devil, and the Details

Progressives have these questions. Others will too.

Steve Roth

How Economics Can Free Itself from Religious Dogmatism

Pure theory made economics more remote from day-to-day reality.

John Rapley

Where Do Pro-Social Institutions Come From?

How Do Countries ’Get to Denmark‘?

Pseudoerasmus

What Economics Models Really Say

Why is there such an enormous gulf between what economists know and what they say in public?

Peter Turchin

It Takes a Theory to Beat a Theory: The Adaptive Markets Hypothesis

We need a new narrative for how markets work. We now have enough pieces of the puzzle to start putting it all together.

Andrew Lo

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