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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.

March 2, 2012

How to Get the Rich to Share the Marbles

This “share-the-spoils” button has been discovered, in a sense, but it may turn out to be harder to press than Democrats might think.

September 23, 2012

Inequality of Wealth. Inequality of Health.

Historical data show that rampant economic inequality results in declining standards of life for the least advantaged.

January 15, 2013

Claims of Fairness in Apes Have Critics Crying Foul

Dispute breaks out over the extent to which chimps cooperate.

September 13, 2012

Joseph Stiglitz. The Price of Inequality. Cultural Evolution. The Evolution Institute.

Right now Ayn Randism has a much greater sway than evolutionary thinking.

January 15, 2013

Chimps Have a Sense of Fairness

Humans aren't the only ones who cry "no fair."

October 8, 2012

Is Inequality in Our Genes?

A forthcoming article by two economists says inequality is in our genes.

January 6, 2013

Are We Born With a Sense of Fairness?

Does fairness come standard with every newborn, or is it something that we (hopefully) develop as we mature?

October 3, 2012

Does Our Evolutionary History Condemn Us to Social Inequality?

Is Inequality Natural?

September 13, 2012

Twilight of the Elites. Or the Unintended Consequences of Meritocracy

How elite competition can lead to unequal outcomes.

October 3, 2012

Did Human Evolution Favor Individualists or Altruists?

Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then transporting it into our human past.

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?

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.

February 7, 2013

Return Of The Oppressed

From the Roman Empire to our own Gilded Age, inequality moves in cycles. The future looks like a rough ride.

July 26, 2012

The Joker’s Wild: On the Ecology of Gun Violence in America

The United States is the deadliest wealthy country in the world. Can science help us explain, or even solve, our national crisis?