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The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics
As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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April 4, 2018
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Design organizations compatible with human nature
From the advent of the industrial revolution to the present, the business class paid scant attention to human nature. The social and physical design of organizations focused on efficiency and cost-savings. This resulted in a mismatch between our work environments and human nature.
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April 4, 2018
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Building trust in diverse groups
Mental models that support our choice of leaders suffer from biases inherited from our evolutionary past, which are frequently mismatched with our current environments that change faster than our brains.
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April 4, 2018
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The Gendered Organisation
The classic pyramidal hierarchy, so beloved by men, is increasingly unfit for purpose.
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April 4, 2018
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The face of a leader: Honest signal or a mismatch?
When encountering a person we do not look at their feet, torso, or shoulders; we are compelled to first look at them in the face and instantly judge them.
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April 3, 2018
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Moral Sentiments
To maximize our welfare we should design organizations for Homo sapiens rather than for Homo economicus.
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April 3, 2018
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Tinbergen’s four questions and variance explained: Why business (and all behavioral science) needs evolutionary theory
Any behavioral science—including business—that does not acknowledge, understand, and utilize Tinbergen’s four evolutionary questions to guide research will simply be leaving variance left to be explained on the table, and will be fundamentally limited as a result.
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March 29, 2018
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Systems Engineering as Cultural Group Selection: A Conversation with Guru Madhavan
Systems engineering can be seen as an exceptionally pure form of artificial cultural group selection, which explicitly treats a physical or a social system as the unit of selection and employs highly refined processes for evolving the system’s component parts.
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March 20, 2018
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Punk Evolutionist: An Interview with Greg Graffin
Did you know that Greg Graffin, founder of the legendary band Bad Religion, is also a deep evolutionary thinker? Here’s the back story.
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March 15, 2018
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Curiosity as a Commandment for Business School Curricula
Understanding the evolutionary basis for curiosity as a human universal importantly invites everyone to appreciate that they can individually start being more curious, more innovative, or more entrepreneurial.
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March 12, 2018
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Evolution and the Enigma of Reason: Brian Boyd Interviews Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber on their New Book
In The Enigma of Reason, Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber crack the code on one of the greatest evolutionary mysteries of all time.
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March 5, 2018
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Constructing Our Niches: Exploring the Relevant Ultimate Design Features
When evolutionary theory is used in the building and construction industry we can better design our workspaces to increase cooperation and productivity.
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[BONUS EPISODE] Geoffrey Hodgson on Evolutionary Thinking and Its Policy Implications for Modern Capitalism
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.
- Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859)
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Evolutionary Science in Joyce’s Ulysses
James Joyce developed a writing technique that mirrored advances in the evolutionary science of his day and these insights are present in his novel. To explore this link, we can begin by looking at the most direct references to evolution science. Amidst the range of references to cultural figures in Ulysses, Charles Darwin makes a number of appearances, most notably in the fourteenth chapter, Oxen of the Sun.
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