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As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary perspective.
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February 2, 2021
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Does Competition Increase Trust?
Research shows that when a person moves into a more competitive industry their trust tends to increase.
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January 29, 2021
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Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Small Groups
Prosociality requires not just figuring out what’s prosocial within the group, but also how a group fits into a larger, multigroup social organization that is also prosocial.
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January 26, 2021
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Why Immigration Drives Innovation
U.S. immigration is but one example of how the interactions of many diverse minds—our collective brains—drive innovation and ultimately economic growth.
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January 22, 2021
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Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Behavioral and Physical Health
Many social and personal problems are adaptive in the evolutionary sense of the word, but what if we could manage the process of personal evolution?
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January 19, 2021
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My Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Don’t Be an Economist
Climate change, collapsing ecosystems, savage wealth inequality, tech monopolies, and the growing precarity of livelihoods are challenging some foundational assumptions of standard economics.
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January 15, 2021
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Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Organizational Development
Elinor Ostrom won the Nobel Prize by creating a database of common-pool resource groups from a very diffuse literature. Can we do the same for business development?
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January 14, 2021
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Atlas Hugged and the Nature of Fiction, with Brian Boyd
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.
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January 14, 2021
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Atlas Hugged and Our Moment of Choice, with Kurt Johnson
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
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January 14, 2021
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Atlas Hugged and Catalyzing Positive Change in the Real World, with David Korten
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.
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January 12, 2021
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Economics Will Never Move If We Try To Change It Incrementally
Economics provides an outstanding example of the “you can’t get there from here” principle in academic cultural evolution.
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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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