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Economy

Mar 30, 2023

Italy’s Tradition of Self-Organized Services

As the cultural and economic environment in Italy has changed, the character of the cooperative movement has changed. Social and community cooperatives have played a key role in channeling these changes.

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Mar 28, 2023

A War Between the Economy and Earth

How and why did humans become collectively configured around an economic system that places them at odds with the planetary boundaries of the Earth?

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Mar 14, 2023

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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Mar 9, 2023

The Invisible Hand is a Wishful Invention

A better metaphor for economics is that of a giant organism continually reacting to and also modifying its own environment.

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Mar 7, 2023

Some Pessimistic Advice to an Aspiring Economist

The core assumption in modern economics is highly flawed but it can be hard to find anyone in economics departments willing to acknowledge it.

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Mar 2, 2023

Advice to an Aspiring Economist: Introduction

This series of essays is a catalyst for change in the economics profession and how it is taught to the next generation of economists.

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Jan 30, 2023

A New Economic Paradigm for People and Planet

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Nov 30, 2022

The Nordic Third Way: A Conversation with Nina Witoszek and Atle Midttun

The Nordic nations are identified as exemplars of good governance, which avoid the excesses of both centralized planning and laissez-faire capitalism.

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Nov 17, 2022

Ten Thousand Years of the Third Way: A Conversation with Peter Turchin

Our emergence as a species and the last ten thousand years of human history demonstrates how positive cultural change has taken place.

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Sep 29, 2022

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Development: A Conversation with Scott Peters

There is an alternative way to promote development so governments and other agencies can produce positive social change.

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Sep 15, 2022

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship in the Internet Age: A Conversation with Tim O’Reilly

The Internet represents the ideal model to understand The Third Way alternative to laissez-faire and centralized planning.

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Sep 8, 2022

Urban Planning and the Third Way: A Conversation with Daniel T. O’Brien

Smart cities allow a comparison of laissez-faire, centralized planning, and the Third Way of entrepreneurship and all other forms of positive social change.

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Aug 11, 2022

The Role of the Market in the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Peter Boettke

Markets have a role to play, but they must be structured so that the cultural evolutionary process is managed to achieve whole-system goals.

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Jul 28, 2022

The Third Way of Entrepreneurship and the Art of Public Policy: A Conversation with David Colander

There are many sectors of the economy where for-benefit corporations are a better structure than either for-profit corporations and not-for-profit corporations as currently structured.

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Jul 14, 2022

Pragmatism as the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Trygve Throntveit

Positive systemic change must be the target of selection. Alternative social practices must be oriented toward the target of selection.

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Jun 30, 2022

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship

A modern understanding of human cultural evolution reveals the conventional laissez-faire view of entrepreneurship as too simple.

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Oct 4, 2021

Stewarding the Cultural Evolution of Complex Systems: The Case of Regenerative Agriculture

A conversation with Prof. Nicholas R. Jordan, founder of Forever Green which is one of the most ambitious efforts to transition from conventional farming practices to regenerative agriculture

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Jan 19, 2021

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.

Economy
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Jan 12, 2021

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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Jan 5, 2021

Advice for Evolutionary-Minded Economics Students

Despite exciting synergies between evolution and economics, the disciplines interact less than they should. How can students blend these two fields?

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Dec 30, 2020

A Copernican Revolution in Economics

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

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Dec 28, 2020

Placing Economics into the Cooperative Frame

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

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Dec 21, 2020

Bringing Evolutionary Thinking Into Economics and Finance

For aspiring scholars, there is a wealth of options for learning about evolutionary thinking as a foundation for applications in economics.

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Dec 17, 2020

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 dialogue is required.

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Dec 14, 2020

Do zee Chimpanzees Have zee Credit Cards?

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

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Dec 10, 2020

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

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

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Aug 17, 2020

The Coronavirus Pandemic, Evolutionary Sociology, and Long-Term Economic Growth in the United States

Despite the coronavirus, the per capita growth average should return to normal, just as it did in previous economic crises over the last 150 years.

Economy
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Aug 6, 2020

Evolution, Complexity, and the Third Way of Entrepreneurship: A Capstone Conversation with Victor Hwang

Entrepreneurs are not disconnected individuals, they are cooperating in a connected ecosystem.

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Apr 16, 2020

The Crisis of Capitalism

We must evolve a form of capitalism that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit.

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Apr 2, 2020

How Free-Market Ideology Resulted in the Great Recession

The evolutionary principles of variation and selection are relevant to finance because the practices of banks and related financial institutions are selected by their impact on profits.

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Feb 27, 2020

The Cultural Evolution of Social Pathologies: Introduction to a Series of Essays by Anthony Biglan

The fact that evolutionary selection pressures so often result in social pathologies might be hard to accept, but once faced squarely it can lead to an optimistic point of view.

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Dec 22, 2019

Beyond Individualism

The hardest thing for a fish to see is water. This adage aptly expresses the difficulty we have understanding our own cultures. We spot the foibles of other cultures--even our own cultures in the past--but are blind to our current foibles.

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Sep 25, 2019

New Foundations for Macroeconomics

Ever since Darwin drew upon Thomas Malthus and Adam Smith, economic and evolutionary theory have been entwined throughout their histories. Yet modern macroeconomic theory has yet to incorporate developments in evolutionary theory during the last few decades.

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Jul 16, 2018

The Evolutionary Roots of Irrationality

Homo Economicus is perhaps nothing more than an illusion. Instead, the mirror that behavioral economics and evolutionary psychology put in front of us shows us our real selves, social norms and irrational behavior included.

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Jul 15, 2018

Humanizing Corporations: A Nobel Prize for Enlightened Business Leaders

How Per L. Saxegaard's (Business for Peace Foundation) efforts to humanize corporations can be understood from a multilevel evolutionary perspective.

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Jun 18, 2018

You're Racist and Sexist, But It’s Not (Entirely) Your Fault

Companies are great at evaluating skills but inconsistent at evaluating temperament due to unconscious bias. These biases are, in part, a natural outcome of the human species evolving in small, homogenous groups. But new tools can help us overcome our innate biases to achieve cultural change.

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Mar 29, 2018

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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Jan 4, 2018

Are Modern Businesses a Mismatch?

The current appeal of boss-less organizations may be more than just a fad; instead it probably reflects a deeper desire for the organizational structures of the past.

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Mind
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Jun 3, 2016

America Needs to Steal Back the Nordic Model by Thom Hartmann

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May 10, 2016

Sam Brownback gutted Kansas: How America’s worst governor and an ultra-conservative ideology wrecked an entire state

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May 10, 2016

Evolving Organizations

Are the past systems humans have used to manage problems enough to deal with the complex environments we find ourselves in today?

Business
Culture
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May 6, 2016

Evolutionary Sports Economics

Are sports evolving?

Economy
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Dec 14, 2015

Adam Smith is stuck without Charles Darwin

If you could change one aspect of your life during 2016, what would make you the happiest? Imagine yourself on December 31, 2016 looking back with satisfaction on 2016. What would it be? Standard economics has an answer.

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Sep 19, 2015

Creating a Grand Coalition to Foster Human Wellbeing

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Sep 10, 2015

Charles Darwin as the Father of Economics: A Conversation with Robert Frank

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Aug 28, 2015

Change the Story. Survival of the Fairest Companies

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Jul 5, 2015

The Pope, Science, and Economics. Of the Three, Economics is by far the most Detached from Reality

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Jun 17, 2015

Is Economics Becoming A Real Science?

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May 20, 2015

Evolving a More Nurturing Capitalism: A New Powell Memo

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May 18, 2015

What Business Cycles Can Teach Us About Evolution

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