Anthony Biglan

Anthony Biglan is a senior scientist at Oregon Research Institute and the author of The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World.

Dr. Biglan is an award-winning leader of worldwide efforts to evolve more nurturing societies. His book, The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior Can Improve Our Lives and Our World, earned him the Scientific Translation Award from the Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Analysis for increasing public understanding of the power of behavioral science. In Rebooting Capitalism, he takes the next step by describing how behavioral science can help reform our political and economic system so that it works for everyone.

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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.

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March 12, 2020

The Right to Sell Arms

Unlike the industry leaders Adam Smith wrote about, when leaders of the gun industry pursue their “own interest” it does not promote the “interests of society.” It is harming society.

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April 2, 2020

How Free-Market Ideology Resulted in the Great Recession

The evolutionary principles of variation and selection are relevant to finance because the practices of banks and related financial institutions are selected by their impact on profits.

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March 5, 2020

How Cigarette Marketing Killed 20 Million People

The tobacco industry provides a lesson about the harm that can be done in the name of profit. No other industry has contributed as much to promote illness and death.

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March 19, 2020

How and Why the Food Industry Makes Americans Sick

The problem is that capitalism, as it is currently practiced in the United States, has no system for assessing the risks of companies’ products and marketing practices.

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March 26, 2020

Big Pharma and the Death of Americans

As long as harmful practices result in profits to corporations and income to corporate leaders, harmful practices will continue.

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