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

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.

Hunter-gatherer societies have much to teach us about modern Democratic governance.

Join a conversation about the field of performance management and how the evolution/complexity paradigm offers a new perspective, compared to the neoclassical economic paradigm.

Join us for a discussion about a company that has created an extraordinary culture of caring for itself, and has replicated its culture in over 140 other adopted companies.

Complex systems science and generalized Darwinism can help to catalyze prosocial cultural evolution at the scale of whole cities.

All groups require boundaries to organize their internal governance and external relations with other groups.

Join us for a discussion with the leading expert on an economic paradigm based on complex systems science and evolutionary science.

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.

Charles Darwin and Alexis de Tocqueville both embarked upon voyages that would change the way we view the world today.

Generalized Darwinism can improve our ability to accomplish positive change in the real world.

Conscious capitalism is well known as a business movement that goes against almost everything that is taught in business school.

The B-Corp movement, which envisions "business as a force for good", started in 2006 and currently numbers over 8000 companies worldwide.

Philosophers have a major role to play in scientific inquiry, with topic areas such as physics and biology raising different sets of issues.

Join us as we discuss the past, present, and future of the vitally important topic of Nature vs. Nurture.

Join us as we discuss the general nature of wicked problems and how Binghamton and Binghamton University can become a city and university that is adept at solving them.

Can Multilevel Cultural Evolution provide a new paradigm for anti-trust law, along with the rest of economics?

A major corporation is teaming up with evolutionary scientists to help achieve its laudable goals and provide a model for other corporations.

Geoffrey Hodgson, a scholar of economics and the social sciences, explains how both forms of national governance fail in their pure forms.

TVOL's first podcast with Michele Gelfand explored an axis of cultural variation from "tight" (strong norms, strongly enforced) to "loose" (tolerant of individual differences).

Urban planning represents one kind of positive change effort that has suffered from excessive reliance on laissez-faire in some instances and centralized planning in other instances.

Hodgson's research has applications to the understanding of organizations, organizational change, innovation, entrepreneurship, and economic development.

What are ecosystems? Do they achieve some kind of balance in their natural state? Do they evolve in a way that can't be explained by the evolution of their component species? I take a deep dive with Tom Whitham into territory that is controversial even among the experts.

The Nordic countries are identified as exemplars of good governance and the Third Way.

David discusses morality from an evolutionary perspective with analytic philosopher Simon Blackburn.

Positive Deviance has been used to prevent child malnourishment in Vietnam, female circumcision in Egypt, and even improve an American pharmaceutical company's outreach to doctors.

Rita Colwell pioneered the study of microbial ecology and genetics and served as Director of the National Science Foundation during 1998-2004.

In this bonus archive episode, David talks with evolutionary psychologist Robert Kurzban.

In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as a fundamentally cultural species.

Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of business and management.

Darwin was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and the portrait artist Charles Willson Peale, who created the most famous museum of the Revolutionary era.

TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make better sense of the human dimension of their role, so that they can work with, rather than against, human nature.

David Korten is the renowned futurist, author of When Corporations Rule the World and The Great Turning among many other books, founder of YES! Magazine, and a prominent member of the Club of Rome.

Kurt Johnson wears many hats--a distinguished evolutionary biologist, a leader of the Interspiritual Movement, an authority on the scientific career of the novelist Vladimir Nabokov

We discuss Atlas Hugged and Brian's biography-in-progress of the legendary philosopher of science, Karl Popper, who pioneered the study of epistemology from an evolutionary perspective.