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February 21, 2025

Depolarizing Economic Theory and Practice, with Paul Dragos Aligica

Generalized Darwinism as a new paradigm for economics and public policy doesn't fall into any current ideological camp.

January 22, 2025

Curing Economics' Addiction to Unreal Theories: A Conversation with Nat Dyer

Economist David Ricardo became so mesmerized by his models that he gave them priority over the more complicated real world—just like the neoclassical economists of today.

February 12, 2025

Happy Darwin Day! How Darwinism Can Help Us Flourish in 2025

Darwinism, properly understood, is far more relevant to evolving a better world than most people currently realize.

June 17, 2024

The Relevance of Thorstein Velblen and His Era for Rethinking Economics in the Present, with Charles Camic

Join our discussion on the emergence of economics as a profession and the divide between marginalist and evolutionary thinking that is still very much with us today.

February 16, 2012

Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?

After decades of exclusion from meaningful social and political discourse, themes of social justice are making a serious comeback.

June 12, 2012

Farewell, Lin Ostrom

The world lost a great human being in the passing of Elinor Ostrom.

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>

April 10, 2012

The Taint of ‘Social Darwinism’

In the interests of historical accuracy, however, it should be clearly recognized that “social Darwinism” has very little to do with the ideas developed by Charles Darwin in “On the Origin of Species.”

July 24, 2012

Climate Change and Inter-Group Cooperation

Given the tension between our evolved tribalism and the global collective action problem of managing our planet, how can we hope to avoid the climate tipping point?

June 28, 2012

The Nature of Regulation I: Breaking Out of Our Narrative Prisons

Both liberal and conservative narratives about regulation are like prisons that confine reasonable people to predetermined choices. A new narrative based on the biological concept of regulation can set us free. Regulation is one of the most charged words in politics. If you’re a conservative, then you’re likely to think that regulation is a bad thing that erodes personal responsibility and prevents the free enterprise system from working its magic.

July 2, 2012

Lipstick, the Recession and Evolutionary Psychology

Our findings confirmed that the lipstick effect is not only real, but deeply rooted in women’s mating psychology.

February 12, 2013

The New Invisible Hand

The invisible hand does not exist - at least in its modern incarnation.