2012

05 Jul Is biology easier than physics?
01 Jul The lipstick effect
28 Jun Inequality persistence circa 5000 BCE
25 Jun The deep roots of development
22 Jun Pinker takes on group selection
21 Jun Population, connectivity and innovation
19 Jun Europeans and economic growth
17 Jun Evolutionary science as the new "classics"
16 Jun Evolutionary policy making
13 Jun Some perspectives on Elinor Ostrom
11 Jun Robert Frank's Passions Within Reason
08 Jun Economists on autopilot
06 Jun Economists are different?
04 Jun Hayek, planning and eugenics
03 Jun A critique of behavioural economics from 1988
01 Jun Shrinking brains and intelligence
30 May The consequences of shrinking brains
28 May Eugenics and regression to the mean
26 May Conflict and social evolution
24 May Markets and morals
22 May Seabright's The War of the Sexes
20 May Institutions are endogenous
19 May Entanglement
18 May Could this critique apply to economics?
16 May Chimps 1, Humans 0
15 May While we wait for the genoeconomics revolution
14 May Maladaptive ideas
11 May The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences
09 May Game theory and the peacock's tail
07 May Rubin's Darwinian Politics
06 May The Biological Basis of Preferences and Behaviour conference
03 May IQ as a necessary but not sufficient condition for genius
02 May Gandolfi, Gandolfi and Barash's Economics as an Evolutionary Science
30 Apr Consilience conference afterthoughts
27 Apr Group selection and the social sciences
22 Apr The recent evolution of musical talent
20 Apr Why do we work less?
18 Apr Selfish herding
16 Apr Matt Ridley's The Rational Optimist
11 Apr Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth
09 Apr The three stages of evolutionary economics
05 Apr Saad's The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption
03 Apr The return of group selection
01 Apr Economics and evolutionary biology reading list
01 Apr An economics and evolutionary biology reading list
28 Mar Teaching evolution in economics
26 Mar Bowles and Gintis's A Cooperative Species
21 Mar Education, income and children
19 Mar The political implications of group selection
16 Mar Subsidise the rich for the good of our species
14 Mar Are children normal goods?
12 Mar New books on the evolution of cooperation
09 Mar Male income and reproductive success
07 Mar The eugenics of contraception
29 Feb Why do married men earn more?
28 Feb Kahneman on the price of freedom
24 Feb Foresight by H. G. Wells
22 Feb Parental income and SAT scores
21 Feb Evolutionary strategies
17 Feb Harford’s Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
15 Feb Quantifying children
13 Feb Population genetics and economic growth
09 Feb Risk aversion is not irrational
07 Feb Trivers on biology in economics
03 Feb Trivers's The Folly of Fools
02 Feb Strength by outbreeding
31 Jan Payment for winning the genetic lottery
29 Jan Absolute improvement
27 Jan Frank's Luxury Fever
24 Jan Excess males
21 Jan Consilience Conference
20 Jan Economic mobility and reproductive success
19 Jan The mating reservation wage
18 Jan Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow
16 Jan Crime, abortion and genes
13 Jan Evolution and education policy
11 Jan Dysgenics and war
09 Jan Status, signalling and the handicap principle
06 Jan Intelligence and assortive mating
04 Jan Garon's Beyond Our Means
02 Jan A Nobel Prize for biology

2011

30 Dec Not so irrational
27 Dec Best books I read in 2011
22 Dec IQ externalities
19 Dec Zimbardo's The Lucifer Effect
18 Dec The perfection of man
16 Dec Genoeconomics: molecular genetics and economics
13 Dec The use of heritability in policy development
11 Dec A passion for equality?
07 Dec Human evolution goes on
05 Dec Dubreuil's Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies
03 Dec An evolutionary Occupy
19 Nov Fukuyama's The Origins of Political Order
18 Nov Two articles on genetics and economics
15 Nov Intelligence changes
12 Nov Monkey inequality
10 Nov Malthus and the feast
06 Nov The IQ taboo
05 Nov Is loss aversion a bias?
01 Nov Take the evolutionary economics pill