Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms VIII: A Vigorous Hybrid of...
Lin’s recipe for success (see E&E VII) might seem obvious in retrospect, but it is hard to categorize as liberal, conservative, or libertarian as these terms are used in current American political...
View ArticleEconomics and Evolution as Different Paradigms IX: Consilience in Action
Consilience, or the unity of knowledge, is the Nirvana of science, where everything interlocks consistently with everything else. Neoclassical economics is not consilient with other branches of...
View ArticleEconomics and Evolution as Different Paradigms X: The Ultimate-Proximate...
Everything that evolves requires two explanations. First, why does a given trait exist compared to many other traits that could exist (ultimate causation)? Second, what are the physical mechanisms that...
View ArticleEvolution and Economics as Different Paradigms XI: Market Fundamentalism
The term “market fundamentalism” was popularized by George Soros in his 1998 book The Crisis of Global Capitalism and has led a lively existence ever since. It’s a great epithet, but what does it...
View ArticleEconomics and Evolution as Different Paradigms XII: Behavioral Economics, or...
So far I have shown that Homo economicus, the conception of human nature imagined by rational choice theory, is a far cry from the real thing. Moreover, it stubbornly refuses to gravitate toward the...
View ArticleEconomics and Evolution as Different Paradigms XIII: May the Best Paradigm Win
This is the final installment of my “Economics and Evolution as Different Paradigms” series. The series reflects what I have learned as president of the Evolution Institute, working with literally...
View ArticleEvolution Comes Out of Hiding in Lisbon
Greetings from Lisbon, where I am helping to inaugurate the first EvoS program in Europe. EvoS (for Evolutionary Studies, pronounced as one word) teaches evolution across the curriculum. I started the...
View ArticleWhat’s Evolution Got To Do With It? I. Four Reasons to Ignore the E-word
I spend much of my time talking with people about subjects, such as education or economics, that have not been traditionally approached from an evolutionary perspective. For me, evolution provides a...
View ArticleWhat’s Evolution Got To Do With It? II. The Other Tinbergen and His Four...
If you’re an economist, you know about Jan Tinbergen, who shared the first Nobel Prize in Economics with Ragnar Frisch in 1969 for his work on dynamic models of economic processes. If you’re an...
View ArticleWhat’s Evolution Got To Do With It? III. Design Thinking Requires Knowledge...
With Tinbergen’s four questions in mind (II), we can continue examining the reasons why evolution might be irrelevant for the study of a particular trait, even though the trait is a product of...
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