Anthony Biglan

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.

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.

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.

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.

March 26, 2024

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.

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.

April 9, 2020

The Fossil Fuel Industry: The Greatest Threat to Human Wellbeing

Fossil fuel companies have an incentive to prevent policies that would keep them from selling their assets. We should not be surprised, therefore, that these companies have taken steps to prevent such an outcome.

April 16, 2020

The Crisis of Capitalism

We must evolve a form of capitalism that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit.

May 20, 2015

Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: A New Powell Memo

September 19, 2015

Creating a Grand Coalition to Foster Human Wellbeing