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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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By David Sloan Wilson In Biology

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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By Blair Fix In Economy

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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Biology Politics

Learning from Evolution about Free Speech

The world is in turmoil over the incendiary language of a US president, the invasion…

David Sloan Wilson
January 11, 2021

Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Emotions and Empathy

How does felt emotion overlap with expressed emotion and its social functions? What is the…

Steven C. Hayes
January 8, 2021

Economy

Advice for Evolutionary-Minded Economics Students

Despite exciting synergies between evolution and economics, the disciplines interact less than they should. How…

Donald Cox
January 5, 2021

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Biology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Development and Adolescence

Are adolescent behaviors innately pathological or are they a result of the environment? Prominent scholars…

David Sloan Wilson
January 1, 2021

Economy

A Copernican Revolution in Economics

Does evolution offer the tools for economics to take the next great leap?

Dennis Snower
December 30, 2020

Economy

Placing Economics into the Cooperative Frame

The evolutionary approach tells us we can increase the chances of our group's survival through…

Andreas Duus Pape
December 28, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Symbolic Thought and Communication

Are there universal features of grammar and syntax?

Steven C. Hayes
December 22, 2020

Economy

Bringing Evolutionary Thinking Into Economics and Finance

For aspiring scholars, there is a wealth of options for learning about evolutionary thinking as…

David Hirshleifer
December 21, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Learning

Can variation and selection within a lifetime be thought of evolutionarily?

Steven C. Hayes
December 18, 2020

Economy

Evolution is No Self-Seller in Economics. What Do We Do About That?

Due to the transdisciplinary nature of research on evolution, openness to engage in an interdisciplinary…

Ulrich Witt
December 17, 2020

Biology Psychology

Evolution and Contextual Behavioral Science: Introduction

This groundbreaking series of conversations seek to integrate Evolutionary Science and Contextual Behavioral Science with…

David Sloan Wilson, Steven C. Hayes
December 15, 2020

Economy

Do zee Chimpanzees Have zee Credit Cards?

What can an aspiring economist do to acquire an education in Evonomics on their own?

Terence Burnham
December 14, 2020

Economy

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Truths of Being an Economist

An evolutionary perspective can bring back what’s missing from economic theory.

John Gowdy
December 10, 2020

Sociology

The Epidemic and the Epistemic: An Exercise in Evolutionary Sociology

The present pandemic is a stark reminder that humans are, first and foremost, biological beings…

Douglas A. Marshall
December 9, 2020

Economy

A War Between the Economy and Earth

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them…

Lisi Krall
December 7, 2020

Economy

The Case for Adding Darwin to Behavioral Economics

As behavioral economics continues to evolve, it would profit from adopting an even broader interdisciplinary…

Robert Frank
December 3, 2020

Economy

The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention

A better metaphor for economics is that of a giant organism continually reacting to and…

Alan Kirman
November 30, 2020

Economy

Some Pessimistic Advice to an Aspiring Economist

The core assumption in modern economics is highly flawed but it can be hard to…

Geoffrey Hodgson
November 26, 2020

Economy

Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Introduction

This series of essays is a catalyst for change in the economics profession and how…

David Sloan Wilson
November 23, 2020

Education

Promoting Cooperation in Schools Using Norms and Processes from our Evolutionary History

Cooperative learning can help to establish social conditions that are similar to those that brought…

Mark J. Van Ryzin
November 9, 2020

Education

Elinor’s Classroom: Developing a Connected Concept of the Commons for 21st Century Civic Education

A new culture of interdisciplinary teaching is emerging in regards to the cultural evolution of…

Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanisch
November 5, 2020

Sociology

Evolution Does Not Explain Tyranny: COVID-19 Could Have Led To Many Fewer Deaths If Tyranny Had Been Less Prevalent in Washington, D.C.

In times of public health crisis, political leaders need to suppress dysfunctional personality traits and…

Richard Devine
November 2, 2020

Podcast

Human Nature at Work with Andrew O’Keeffe

TVOL guest host Max Beilby talks with Andrew O'Keeffe about his work helping leaders make…

Max Beilby
November 2, 2020

Podcast

The Study of Nature in Early America: A Conversation with Lee Dugatkin

Darwin was an integral part of the Enlightenment and was avidly pursued by early Americans…

Lee Alan Dugatkin
November 2, 2020

Podcast

Managing the Human Animal, with Nigel Nicholson and Max Beilby

Max Beilby and Nigel Nicholson discuss the application of evolutionary psychology to the world of…

Nigel Nicholson, Max Beilby
November 2, 2020

Sociology

From the Middle: Sites of Culture, Cooperation, and Trust in Risk Society

Democracy will live or die depending on its ability to respond to twenty-first-century hazards.

Lukas Szrot
October 26, 2020

Health Sociology

How Covid-19 Reminds Us We Are More Alike Than Different

Genetic differences between individuals within groups are much greater than any average differences between groups…

Rosemary L. Hopcroft
October 12, 2020

History

Evolutionary Biologists Need to Know about Charles Willson Peale’s Philadelphia Museum

This edited chapter from Lee Alan Dugatkin's book Behind the Crimson Curtain: The Rise and…

Lee Alan Dugatkin
October 12, 2020

Health Sociology

For God’s Sake! What’s All This Fuss About a Virus?

The success (or failure) that societies have had in the wake of COVID-19 offers a…

Andrew Atkinson
September 14, 2020

Sociology

Gene-Culture and Potential Culture-Gene Coevolution: The Future of COVID-19

Just as COVID-19's genes initially selected for changes in our culture, in the future those…

Marion Blute
September 7, 2020

Education

Transfer of Learning in Evolution Understanding: A Challenge Not Just For Students

Researchers focused on teaching evolutionary science have taken up the charge of seeking effective ways…

Dustin Eirdosh, Susan Hanisch
September 3, 2020

Podcast

Cultural Evolution with Alex Mesoudi

In the last 30 years, evolutionary theory has undergone explosive growth in studying humans as…

Alex Mesoudi
September 2, 2020

Podcast

[BONUS] Robert Kurzban On the Modular Mind

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

David Sloan Wilson
September 2, 2020

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