Category: Economy
Events:
June 3, 2024
Transforming Business and Education- Leading towards Flourishing
Articles:
May 30, 2023
The Third Way of Entrepreneurship and the Art of Public Policy: A Conversation with David Colander
There are many sectors of the economy where for-benefit corporations are a better structure than either for-profit corporations and not-for-profit corporations as currently structured.
May 25, 2023
Socialism, Capitalism, and the Third Way of National Governance: A Conversation with Geoffrey Hodgson
The failure of laissez-faire and centralized planning, revealing the need for the Third Way of entrepreneurship and all other forms of positive social change, should exist at all scales of governance.
May 23, 2023
Pragmatism as the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Trygve Throntveit
Positive systemic change must be the target of selection. Alternative social practices must be oriented toward the target of selection.
October 4, 2021
Stewarding the Cultural Evolution of Complex Systems: The Case of Regenerative Agriculture
A conversation with Prof. Nicholas R. Jordan, founder of Forever Green which is one of the most ambitious efforts to transition from conventional farming practices to regenerative agriculture
February 27, 2020
The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan
The fact that evolutionary selection pressures so often result in social pathologies might be hard to accept, but once faced squarely it can lead to an optimistic point of view.
September 25, 2019
New Foundations for Macroeconomics
Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have been entwined throughout their histories. Yet modern macroeconomic theory has yet to incorporate developments in evolutionary theory during the last few decades.
June 18, 2018
You're Racist and Sexist, But It’s Not (Entirely) Your Fault
Companies are great at evaluating skills but inconsistent at evaluating temperament due to unconscious bias. These biases are, in part, a natural outcome of the human species evolving in small, homogenous groups. But new tools can help us overcome our innate biases to achieve cultural change.
March 29, 2018
Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan
Systems engineering can be seen as an exceptionally pure form of artificial cultural group selection, which explicitly treats a physical or a social system as the unit of selection and employs highly refined processes for evolving the system’s component parts.
November 14, 2013
Alan Greenspan, Human Nature, And Charles Darwin
Chairman Greenspan again uses the wrong model of human nature.Terry Burnham's response to Alan Greenspan's <em><a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140161/alan-greenspan/never-saw-it-coming"><strong>Never Saw It Coming</strong></a></em> at <a href="http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140161/alan-greenspan/never-saw-it-coming"><strong>Foreign Affairs</strong>.</a>
July 4, 2013
Darwin’s Invisible Hand: Market Competition, Evolution And The Firm
Designing effective organizations using Darwinian selection.The key [to designing an effective organization] is not to strike some (inefficient) compromise between the interests of individuals and their group, but to work with the grain of human nature to bring individual and group interests into alignment.
July 3, 2013
Economics Special Issue
The emerging new paradigm for improving public policy.In a special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, more than two dozen scholars from around the world have written 13 articles with the important and difficult goal of making economics better.
June 5, 2013
Breadwinner Moms: Progress Toward Equity Or Sign Of The End Times?
Few subjects polarize as neatly along conservative-progressive lines as the changing structure of the family.The end of times, it would appear, is upon us. At least that’s the word from the Fox network. The signs manifest as a Pew Research Center report, published last week, showing that mothers are now the sole or primary provider in forty percent of United States households with children.
May 19, 2013
How Fairness Depends On Your Social Status
A growing body of research indicates that we do not hold people of different social status to the same standards.A growing body of research indicates that we do not hold people of different social status to the same standards: What counts as fair for a high-status individual does not necessarily count as fair for a low-status individual.
March 6, 2013
To Become More Adaptable, Take a Lesson from Biology
Even the best of us are horrible at predicting the future.
February 11, 2013
Three Waves of Evolutionary Thought
What Darwin called “this view of life” has indisputably transformed the way we think about the living world.A renewed effort to rethink humanity from an evolutionary perspective didn’t gather steam until late in the 20th century. At first the enterprise was regarded as controversial but by now it has become part of mainstream science, which can be seen by perusing the academic literature.
September 1, 2012
The Evolution of Fairness
Can examining how inequality began in a hunter-gatherer society teach us how to fairly share the costs and consequences of how we use diminishing natural resources?
February 11, 2012
Evolution Begins to Occupy Center Stage in Economic Debates
A flurry of recent activity indicates that evolution is beginning to occupy center stage in economic debates—and not a moment too soon.A flurry of recent activity indicates that evolution is beginning to occupy center stage in economic debates—and not a moment too soon.
February 11, 2012
Five Short Questions to Gerd Gigerenzer
How can one make better inferences with less knowledge?We have shown that heuristics are often more accurate and faster in uncertain worlds than optimization methods such as multiple regression and non-linear algorithms such as neural networks. The reason is that simple models tend to be more robust than complex models with many free parameters, and are less hurt by overfitting.
February 10, 2012
Turning Evolutionary Science into a Political Narrative
A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of GovernmentThe Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government does a remarkably good job of distilling the science into powerful and appealing metaphors, such as the economy as like a garden that requires tending, rather than a machine that runs itself.
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