Economy How Fairness Depends On Your Social Status A growing body of research indicates that we do not hold people of different social…tvolimportMay 19, 2013
Economy Return Of The Oppressed From the Roman Empire to our own Gilded Age, inequality moves in cycles. The future…Peter TurchinFebruary 7, 2013
Mind Claims of Fairness in Apes Have Critics Crying Foul Dispute breaks out over the extent to which chimps cooperate.eiadminJanuary 15, 2013
Mind Chimps Have a Sense of Fairness Humans aren't the only ones who cry "no fair."eiadminJanuary 14, 2013
BiologyCultureMorality Are We Born With a Sense of Fairness? Does fairness come standard with every newborn, or is it something that we (hopefully) develop…eiadminJanuary 6, 2013
Biology Is Inequality in Our Genes? A forthcoming article by two economists says inequality is in our genes.eiadminOctober 8, 2012
Culture Did Human Evolution Favor Individualists or Altruists? Rand's mistake was in essentializing the distinction between "individualist freedom" vs. "collectivist tyranny" and then…Eric Michael JohnsonOctober 3, 2012
Economy Does Our Evolutionary History Condemn Us to Social Inequality? Is Inequality Natural?eiadminOctober 3, 2012
EconomyHealth Inequality of Wealth. Inequality of Health. Historical data show that rampant economic inequality results in declining standards of life for the…Peter TurchinSeptember 23, 2012
CultureEconomy Twilight of the Elites. Or the Unintended Consequences of Meritocracy How elite competition can lead to unequal outcomes.Peter TurchinSeptember 13, 2012