2014

08 Jan The origin of the phrase "sneaky f**cker"
04 Jan A week of links

2013

23 Dec Best books I read in 2013
20 Dec A week of links
18 Dec The benefits of math skills to forager-farmers
15 Dec A week of links
11 Dec The theoretical ambition of behavioural science
08 Dec A week of links
02 Dec Neoclassical theory won because it backed the right horse
29 Nov Natural selection and saving
27 Nov Sexual selection on the American frontier
25 Nov Conspicuous consumption as a handicap
22 Nov An evolutionary explanation of consumption
20 Nov Does mathematical training increase our risk tolerance?
15 Nov A week of links
13 Nov Why isn't economics evolutionary?
11 Nov Nelson and Winter's An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
08 Nov A week of links
06 Nov Is intelligence at the root of cooperation?
04 Nov Thaler and Sunstein's Nudge
01 Nov A week of links
30 Oct "Behavioural economics" versus "behavioural science"
28 Oct Six signs you're reading good criticism of economics
25 Oct A week of links
24 Oct Warfare and the transition to agriculture
21 Oct Life expectancy and the dawn of agriculture
18 Oct A week of links
14 Oct In praise of Malcolm Gladwell
11 Oct A week of links
04 Oct A week of links
30 Sep Defending economics from the anthropologists
27 Sep A week of links
25 Sep Silver's The Signal and the Noise
23 Sep Dan Ariely's The Upside of Irrationality
20 Sep A week of links
18 Sep What is evolutionary economics?
13 Sep A week of links
11 Sep Design principles for the efficacy of groups
09 Sep Monkeys respond to the Malthusian limit
06 Sep A week of links
04 Sep Galor's Unified Growth Theory
02 Sep Ariely's Predictably Irrational
30 Aug A week of links
29 Aug Economic cosmology - Equilibrium
26 Aug Economic cosmology - The invisible hand
23 Aug A week of links
20 Aug Economic cosmology - The rational egotistical individual
16 Aug A week of links
12 Aug Four reasons why evolutionary theory might not add value to economics
09 Aug A week of links
07 Aug The love principle
05 Aug An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks
02 Aug A week of links
31 Jul The intergenerational transmission of economic development
29 Jul The deep roots of economic development
26 Jul A week of links
24 Jul Social Darwinism is back
19 Jul A week of links
18 Jul Darwin's Conjecture - Generalising Darwinism
15 Jul Genetic diversity, economic development and policy
12 Jul A week of links
11 Jul Observations on happiness, biases and preferences
09 Jul Grandparents affect social mobility
05 Jul A week of links
04 Jul Economic growth and evolution: Parental preference for quality and quantity of offspring
02 Jul Population, technological progress and the evolution of innovative potential
28 Jun A week of links
26 Jun Accelerating adaptive evolution in humans
24 Jun More people means more ideas AND mutations
21 Jun A week of links
19 Jun When your neighbour wins the lottery
17 Jun Height through the millennia
14 Jun A week of links
12 Jun World economic history in two diagrams
10 Jun Genetics and the increase in obesity
07 Jun A week of links
05 Jun Paleo-hypotheses
03 Jun Zuk's Paleofantasy
31 May A week of links
28 May Modelling versus theory
24 May A week of links
22 May A science of intentional change
20 May Sexual selection and entrepreneurship
17 May A week of links
10 May A week of links
08 May Cluelessness
06 May Impatience and aggregate risk
03 May A week of links
02 May Selection during pregnancy
30 Apr Hwang and Horowitt's The Rainforest
26 Apr A week of links
25 Apr Altruists and the knowledge problem
22 Apr Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making
19 Apr A week of links
18 Apr Evolution of time preference by natural selection
15 Apr A unified behavioural theory of economic activity
12 Apr A week of links
10 Apr Evolutionary psychology, fertility and economic ambition
08 Apr The evolution of happiness
06 Apr A week of links