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A critical behavioural economics and behavioural science reading list
Feb 19, 2025
Books I read in 2024
Jan 17, 2025
Human-AI collaboration: is it better when the human is asleep at the wheel?
Dec 5, 2024
What we learn when we test everything
Nov 13, 2024
The human benchmark is typically unimpressive
Oct 28, 2024
A comment on the manifesto for behavioural science
Oct 25, 2024
Subject notes on behavioural economics
Aug 8, 2024
The illusion of evidence-based nudges
Aug 1, 2024
Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record
Jul 25, 2024
Using generative AI as an academic - July 2024 edition
Jul 15, 2024
The psychological and genes’ eye view of ergodicity economics
Jul 8, 2024
Bryan Caplan’s The Case Against Education: A Review
Apr 19, 2024
The preregistration halo
Jan 26, 2024
A bunch of links
Jan 19, 2024
Books I read in 2023
Jan 18, 2024
Behavioral science policy recommendations early in the pandemic were LARGELY CORRECT, if you ignore those that were not
Dec 22, 2023
Do students learn less from experts?
Nov 2, 2023
John List’s The Voltage Effect: A review
Jul 5, 2023
Using large language models as an academic
Apr 28, 2023
Best books I read in 2022
Jan 10, 2023
Why I don’t believe that signs with fatality numbers cause more crashes
Aug 19, 2022
Please not another bias: Take two
Jul 28, 2022
Please not another bias: correcting the record
Jul 11, 2022
Revised course notes on Consumer Financial Decision Making
Jul 4, 2022
Megastudy scepticism
May 27, 2022
Explaining base rate neglect
Apr 12, 2022
A bunch of links
Mar 17, 2022
Bankers are more honest than the rest of us
Mar 10, 2022
My podcast appearances
Mar 3, 2022
The outsider to the narrow-minded profession
Feb 24, 2022
Replicating scarcity
Feb 17, 2022
How big is the effect of a nudge?
Feb 11, 2022
The academic experiment
Feb 4, 2022
The 1/N portfolio versus the optimal strategy: Does a simple heuristic outperform?
Jan 21, 2022
A default of disbelief
Jan 13, 2022
Best books I read in 2021
Jan 6, 2022
Course notes on Applied Consumer Financial Decision Making
Sep 5, 2021
Best books I read in 2020
Jan 6, 2021
Aren’t we smart, fellow behavioural scientists
Jun 12, 2020
The limits of behavioural science: coronavirus edition
Apr 7, 2020
Risk and loss aversion in ergodicity economics
Feb 18, 2020
Best books I read in 2019
Jan 28, 2020
Ergodicity economics: a primer
Jan 22, 2020
The case against loss aversion
Dec 5, 2019
The next decade of behavioural science: a call for intellectual diversity
Nov 14, 2019
What can we infer about someone who rejects a 50:50 bet to win $110 or lose $100? The Rabin paradox explored
Nov 6, 2019
My latest article at Behavioral Scientist: Principles for the Application of Human Intelligence
Oct 9, 2019
Kahneman and Tversky’s “debatable” loss aversion assumption
Sep 10, 2019
David Leiser and Yhonatan Shemesh’s How We Misunderstand Economics and Why it Matters: The Psychology of Bias, Distortion and Conspiracy
Aug 5, 2019
Nick Chater’s The Mind is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind
May 13, 2019
Three algorithmic views of human judgment, and the need to consider more than algorithms
Apr 30, 2019
Gigerenzer versus Kahneman and Tversky: The 1996 face-off
Apr 1, 2019
Barry Schwartz’s The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less
Feb 25, 2019
Gary Klein’s Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions
Jan 17, 2019
A review of 2018 and some thoughts on 2019
Jan 14, 2019
Carol Dweck’s Mindset: Changing the Way You Think to Fulfil Your Potential
Jan 10, 2019
Books I read in 2018
Jan 3, 2019
Gary Klein on confirmation bias in heuristics and biases research, and explaining everything
Dec 27, 2018
In contrast to less-is-more claims, ignoring information is rarely, if ever optimal
Dec 20, 2018
My latest in Behavioral Scientist: Simple heuristics that make algorithms smart
Dec 14, 2018
A problem in the world or a problem in the model
Dec 7, 2018
The Rhetoric of Irrationality
Nov 30, 2018
Genoeconomics and designer babies: The rise of the polygenic score
Nov 23, 2018
How happy is a paraplegic a year after losing the use of their legs?
Nov 16, 2018
How likely is “likely”?
Nov 9, 2018
Avoiding trite lists of biases and pictures of human brains on PowerPoint slides
Nov 1, 2018
Chris Voss’s Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if your life depended on it
Oct 25, 2018
Me on Rationally Speaking, plus some additional thoughts
Oct 18, 2018
An evolutionary projection of global fertility and population: My new paper (with Lionel Page) in Evolution & Human Behavior
Oct 11, 2018
The Paradox of Trust
Oct 4, 2018
Nudging and the problem of context dependent preferences
Sep 28, 2018
Robert Sugden’s The Community of Advantage: A Behavioural Economist’s Defence of the Market
Sep 26, 2018
Do nudges diminish autonomy?
Sep 19, 2018
A New Useless Class?
Sep 12, 2018
Has the behavioural economics pendulum swung too far?
Sep 5, 2018
The three faces of overconfidence
Aug 29, 2018
Concern about the “tyranny of choice”? Or condescension towards others’ preferences?
Aug 24, 2018
Gerd Gigerenzer’s Gut Feelings: Short Cuts to Better Decision Making
Aug 22, 2018
Gerd Gigerenzer’s Rationality for Mortals: How People Cope with Uncertainty
Aug 15, 2018
The difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something
Aug 8, 2018
Michael Mauboussin’s Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition
Aug 1, 2018
Robert Sapolsky’s Why Zebra’s Don’t Get Ulcers
Jul 25, 2018
Tom Griffiths on Gigerenzer versus Kahneman and Tversky. Plus a neat explanation on why the availability heuristic can be optimal
Jul 18, 2018
Opposing biases
Jul 11, 2018
Hypotheticals versus the real world: The trolley problem
Jul 4, 2018
Explaining the hot-hand fallacy fallacy
Jun 28, 2018
Wealth and genes
Jun 21, 2018
Is the marshmallow test just a measure of affluence?
Jun 13, 2018
Does a moral reminder decrease cheating?
Jun 7, 2018
The marshmallow test held up OK
May 31, 2018
Teacher expectations and self-fulfilling prophesies
May 24, 2018
Noise
May 9, 2018
Behavioural economics: underrated or overrated?
May 2, 2018
My blogroll
Apr 27, 2018
Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
Apr 25, 2018
How I focus (and live)
Apr 19, 2018
Michael Mauboussin’s More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places
Apr 12, 2018
Susan Cain’s Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Apr 5, 2018
Cass Sunstein and Reid Hastie’s Wiser: Getting Beyond Groupthink to Make Groups Smarter
Mar 28, 2018
Some podcast recommendations
Mar 21, 2018
People should use their judgment … except they’re often lousy at it
Mar 14, 2018
Mike Walsh interviews me on algorithm aversion
Mar 7, 2018
Philip Tetlock on messing with the algorithm
Feb 28, 2018
Michael Lewis’s The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed The World
Feb 21, 2018
Angela Duckworth’s Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Feb 14, 2018
Dealing with algorithm aversion
Feb 7, 2018
Dan Ariely’s Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations
Jan 31, 2018
AI in medicine: Outperforming humans since the 1970s
Jan 24, 2018
Is there a “backfire effect”?
Jan 17, 2018
Benartzi (and Lehrer’s) The Smarter Screen: Surprising Ways to Influence and Improve Online Behaviour
Jan 10, 2018
Best books I read in 2017
Jan 3, 2018
Paul Ormerod on Thaler’s Misbehaving
Nov 20, 2017
Unchanging humans
Nov 16, 2017
Getting the right human-machine mix
Nov 13, 2017
Coursera’s Data Science Specialisation: A Review
Nov 8, 2017
Charles Perrow’s Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies
Nov 2, 2017
The benefit of doing nothing
Oct 9, 2017
Adam Alter’s Irresistible: Why We Can’t Stop Checking, Scrolling, Clicking and Watching
Oct 5, 2017
Rats in a casino
Oct 3, 2017
Greg Ip’s Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe
Sep 28, 2017
Does presuming you can take a person’s organs save lives?
Aug 30, 2017
Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Aug 22, 2017
Is it irrational?
Aug 16, 2017
Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins
Jul 19, 2017
Humans vs algorithms
Jul 14, 2017
The “effect is too large” heuristic
Jul 6, 2017
Behavioral Scientist is live
Jun 23, 2017
Gerd Gigerenzer, Peter Todd and the ABC Research Group’s Simple Heuristics That Make Us Smart
Mar 13, 2017
Pedro Domingos’s The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Feb 27, 2017
Coursera’s Executive Data Science Specialisation: A Review
Jan 23, 2017
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths’s Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Jan 20, 2017
Best books I read in 2016
Jan 17, 2017
Newport’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Nov 30, 2016
Rosenzweig’s Left Brain, Right Stuff: How Leaders Make Winning Decisions
Nov 25, 2016
The illusion of the illusion of control
Nov 21, 2016
Overconfident about overconfidence
Nov 18, 2016
Henrich’s The Secret of Our Success: How Culture Is Driving Human Evolution, Domesticating Our Species, and Making Us Smarter
Nov 14, 2016
Jones’s Hive Mind: How Your Nation’s IQ Matters So Much More Than Your Own
Nov 4, 2016
Mandelbrot (and Hudson’s) The (mis)Behaviour of Markets: A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward
Oct 12, 2016
Why prediction is pointless
Sep 27, 2016
Rosenzweig’s The Halo Effect … and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Sep 21, 2016
Tetlock and Gardner’s Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Sep 12, 2016
Tetlock’s Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Aug 25, 2016
Bias in the World Bank
Jul 25, 2016
Kaufmann’s Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?: Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century
Jul 22, 2016
Three podcast episodes
Jul 20, 2016
Last’s What to Expect When No One’s Expecting: America’s Coming Demographic Disaster
Jul 18, 2016
Baumeister and Tierney’s Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength
Jul 15, 2016
The Behavioural Economics Guide 2016 (with an intro by Gerd Gigerenzer)
Jul 4, 2016
Re-reading Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jun 29, 2016
Levine’s Is Behavioural Economics Doomed?
Jun 23, 2016
Replicating anchoring effects
May 27, 2016
Saint-Paul’s The Tyranny of Utility: Behavioral Social Science and the Rise of Paternalism
May 26, 2016
Bad Behavioural Science: Failures, bias and fairy tales
May 11, 2016
Evolutionary Biology in Economics: A Review
May 10, 2016
Ariely’s The Honest Truth About Dishonesty
Apr 22, 2016
The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
Apr 20, 2016
Failure to replicate: ego depletion edition
Apr 15, 2016
Notes on a few books
Apr 13, 2016
Masel’s Bypass Wall Street: A Biologist’s Guide to the Rat Race
Apr 6, 2016
Gottschall’s The Storytelling Animal
Apr 1, 2016
My first biology publication
Mar 31, 2016
Gigerenzer on system one and system two
Mar 17, 2016
Kay’s Other People’s Money
Mar 8, 2016
Thiel’s Zero to One
Feb 15, 2016
Kenrick and Griskevicius’s The Rational Animal
Feb 8, 2016
Best books I read in 2015
Jan 18, 2016
PhD thesis passed
Nov 16, 2015
Evonomics is live!
Oct 12, 2015
Economics and Biology of Contests Conference 2016
Oct 6, 2015
Another #MSiX reading list
Jul 31, 2015
Please, not another bias! An evolutionary take on behavioural economics
Jul 30, 2015
A week of links
Jul 3, 2015
Sam Bowles on the death of ‘Homo Economicus’
Jul 2, 2015
A grumpy take on behavioural economics
Jun 30, 2015
A week of links
Jun 26, 2015
We have no idea
Jun 24, 2015
Please experiment on us
Jun 23, 2015
The Evolutionary Foundations of Economics
Jun 22, 2015
A week of links
Jun 19, 2015
The human factor in accidents
Jun 17, 2015
Marketing Science Ideas Xchange (MSiX) 2015
Jun 15, 2015
A week of links
Jun 12, 2015
The winner effect in humans
Jun 11, 2015
Family friendly backfires
Jun 9, 2015
A week of links
Jun 5, 2015
Merton on retirement incomes
Jun 4, 2015
Measurement error in 23andme
Jun 2, 2015
Ration information and avoid news
Jun 1, 2015
A week of links
May 29, 2015
Fifty years of twin studies
May 28, 2015
Conspicuous consumption and economic growth
May 26, 2015
A week of links
May 17, 2015
A week of links
May 1, 2015
Bad nudges - organ donation edition
Apr 27, 2015
A week of links
Apr 24, 2015
Returns to self control - unemployment edition
Apr 15, 2015
Uncertainty and understanding behaviour
Apr 13, 2015
A week of links
Apr 10, 2015
Predicting replication
Apr 9, 2015
A week of links
Apr 3, 2015
The law of law’s leverage
Apr 2, 2015
The gender reading gap and love of learning
Mar 30, 2015
A week of links
Mar 27, 2015
An evolutionary perspective on behavioural economics
Mar 25, 2015
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Mar 23, 2015
A week of links
Mar 20, 2015
A week of links
Mar 13, 2015
The patience of economists
Mar 12, 2015
The other gender gap
Mar 10, 2015
A week of links
Mar 6, 2015
Overcoming implicit bias
Mar 4, 2015
Introducing Evonomics
Mar 2, 2015
A week of links
Feb 27, 2015
Accepting heritability
Feb 25, 2015
Wisdom from Tolstoy
Feb 23, 2015
A week of links
Feb 20, 2015
A week of links
Feb 13, 2015
Charts that don’t seem quite right - organ donation edition
Feb 11, 2015
The death of defaults?
Feb 9, 2015
A week of links
Feb 6, 2015
Obesity is not a public health problem
Feb 5, 2015
Durant’s The Paleo Manifesto
Feb 4, 2015
Nudging for freedom
Feb 2, 2015
A week of links
Jan 30, 2015
Manzi’s Uncontrolled
Jan 28, 2015
Manzi on the abortion-crime hypothesis
Jan 26, 2015
A week of links
Jan 23, 2015
Grade inflation and the Dunning-Kruger effect
Jan 21, 2015
The benefits of cognitive limits
Jan 19, 2015
A week of links
Jan 16, 2015
That chart doesn’t match your headline - fertility edition
Jan 14, 2015
Bad statistics - cancer edition
Jan 12, 2015
A week of links
Jan 9, 2015
The blogs I read
Jan 8, 2015
Self evident but unexplored - how genetic effects vary over time
Jan 5, 2015
A week of links
Jan 2, 2015
Best books I read in 2014
Dec 30, 2014
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Dec 29, 2014
A week of links
Dec 27, 2014
A week of links
Dec 19, 2014
Complexity versus chaos
Dec 18, 2014
More praise of mathematics
Dec 16, 2014
A week of links
Dec 12, 2014
My year
Dec 11, 2014
We need more complicated mathematical models in economics
Dec 8, 2014
A week of links
Dec 6, 2014
The unrealistic assumptions of biology
Dec 4, 2014
The power of heuristics
Dec 2, 2014
A week of links
Nov 28, 2014
Four perspectives on human decision making
Nov 25, 2014
A week of links
Nov 22, 2014
Genetics and education policy
Nov 19, 2014
The beauty of self interest
Nov 18, 2014
E.O. Wilson’s The Social Conquest of Earth
Nov 17, 2014
A week of links
Nov 14, 2014
Ignorance feels so much like expertise
Nov 12, 2014
A week of links
Nov 7, 2014
Genome Wide Association Studies and socioeconomic outcomes
Nov 4, 2014
A week of links
Oct 31, 2014
Improving behavioural economics
Oct 29, 2014
An updated economics and evolutionary biology reading list and a collection of book reviews
Oct 27, 2014
A week of links
Oct 25, 2014
Finding taxis on rainy days
Oct 23, 2014
A week of links
Oct 19, 2014
The invisible hand of Jupiter
Oct 14, 2014
Lazy analysis - inequality edition
Oct 11, 2014
A week of links
Oct 10, 2014
A week of links
Oct 4, 2014
Tamed by an influx of women
Oct 2, 2014
The genetic basis of social mobility
Sep 30, 2014
A week of links
Sep 27, 2014
Kahneman’s optimistic view of the mind
Sep 24, 2014
A week of links
Sep 20, 2014
Scarcity of time, money, friends and bandwidth
Sep 18, 2014
A week of links
Sep 12, 2014
Gerd Gigerenzer’s Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions
Sep 10, 2014
A week of links
Sep 5, 2014
The biology of boom and bust
Sep 4, 2014
A week of links
Aug 31, 2014
Twin studies stand up to the critique, again
Aug 28, 2014
A week of links
Aug 22, 2014
A week of links
Aug 17, 2014
Shaping the brain and humans as complex systems
Aug 12, 2014
A week of links
Aug 8, 2014
Not the jam study again
Aug 6, 2014
A week of links
Aug 1, 2014
An MSiX reading list
Jul 31, 2014
Gigerenzer versus nudge
Jul 29, 2014
A week of links
Jul 25, 2014
Our visual system predicts the future
Jul 24, 2014
A week of links
Jul 18, 2014
The wisdom of crowds of people who don’t believe in the wisdom of crowds
Jul 17, 2014
The behaviour genetics to eugenics to Nazi manoeuvre
Jul 16, 2014
MSiX: Marketing Science Ideas Xchange
Jul 11, 2014
A week of links
Jul 7, 2014
Genes and socioeconomic aggregates
Jun 24, 2014
The benefit of uncertainty
Jun 15, 2014
A week of links
Jun 9, 2014
A week of links
May 19, 2014
Doubling down
May 13, 2014
A week of links
May 11, 2014
Becker on evolution and economics
May 6, 2014
A week of links
May 3, 2014
A week of links
Apr 18, 2014
Humbling wingnuts
Apr 11, 2014
The magic of commerce
Apr 9, 2014
Ignore the sunk costs
Apr 7, 2014
A week of links
Apr 6, 2014
A week of links
Mar 11, 2014
A week of links
Feb 10, 2014
Cooperation and Conflict in the Family Conference wrap
Feb 9, 2014
A week of links
Feb 2, 2014
A week of links
Jan 27, 2014
A week of links
Jan 19, 2014
The interplay of genetic and cultural evolution
Jan 15, 2014
Doing cultural evolution right
Jan 13, 2014
A week of links
Jan 10, 2014
The origin of the phrase “sneaky f**cker”
Jan 8, 2014
A week of links
Jan 4, 2014
Best books I read in 2013
Dec 23, 2013
A week of links
Dec 20, 2013
The benefits of math skills to forager-farmers
Dec 18, 2013
A week of links
Dec 15, 2013
The theoretical ambition of behavioural science
Dec 11, 2013
A week of links
Dec 8, 2013
Neoclassical theory won because it backed the right horse
Dec 2, 2013
Natural selection and saving
Nov 29, 2013
Sexual selection on the American frontier
Nov 27, 2013
Conspicuous consumption as a handicap
Nov 25, 2013
An evolutionary explanation of consumption
Nov 22, 2013
Does mathematical training increase our risk tolerance?
Nov 20, 2013
A week of links
Nov 15, 2013
Why isn’t economics evolutionary?
Nov 13, 2013
Nelson and Winter’s An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change
Nov 11, 2013
A week of links
Nov 8, 2013
Is intelligence at the root of cooperation?
Nov 6, 2013
Thaler and Sunstein’s Nudge
Nov 4, 2013
A week of links
Nov 1, 2013
“Behavioural economics” versus “behavioural science”
Oct 30, 2013
Six signs you’re reading good criticism of economics
Oct 28, 2013
A week of links
Oct 25, 2013
Warfare and the transition to agriculture
Oct 24, 2013
Life expectancy and the dawn of agriculture
Oct 21, 2013
A week of links
Oct 18, 2013
In praise of Malcolm Gladwell
Oct 14, 2013
A week of links
Oct 12, 2013
A week of links
Oct 4, 2013
Defending economics from the anthropologists
Sep 30, 2013
A week of links
Sep 27, 2013
Silver’s The Signal and the Noise
Sep 25, 2013
Dan Ariely’s The Upside of Irrationality
Sep 23, 2013
A week of links
Sep 20, 2013
What is evolutionary economics?
Sep 18, 2013
A week of links
Sep 13, 2013
Design principles for the efficacy of groups
Sep 11, 2013
Monkeys respond to the Malthusian limit
Sep 9, 2013
A week of links
Sep 6, 2013
Galor’s Unified Growth Theory
Sep 4, 2013
Ariely’s Predictably Irrational
Sep 2, 2013
A week of links
Aug 30, 2013
Economic cosmology - Equilibrium
Aug 29, 2013
Economic cosmology - The invisible hand
Aug 26, 2013
A week of links
Aug 23, 2013
Economic cosmology - The rational egotistical individual
Aug 20, 2013
A week of links
Aug 16, 2013
Four reasons why evolutionary theory might not add value to economics
Aug 12, 2013
A week of links
Aug 9, 2013
The love principle
Aug 7, 2013
An Economic Theory of Greed, Love, Groups, and Networks
Aug 5, 2013
A week of links
Aug 2, 2013
The intergenerational transmission of economic development
Jul 31, 2013
The deep roots of economic development
Jul 29, 2013
A week of links
Jul 26, 2013
Social Darwinism is back
Jul 24, 2013
A week of links
Jul 19, 2013
Darwin’s Conjecture - Generalising Darwinism
Jul 18, 2013
Genetic diversity, economic development and policy
Jul 15, 2013
A week of links
Jul 12, 2013
Observations on happiness, biases and preferences
Jul 11, 2013
Grandparents affect social mobility
Jul 9, 2013
A week of links
Jul 5, 2013
Economic growth and evolution: Parental preference for quality and quantity of offspring
Jul 4, 2013
Population, technological progress and the evolution of innovative potential
Jul 2, 2013
A week of links
Jun 28, 2013
Accelerating adaptive evolution in humans
Jun 26, 2013
More people means more ideas AND mutations
Jun 24, 2013
A week of links
Jun 21, 2013
When your neighbour wins the lottery
Jun 19, 2013
Height through the millennia
Jun 17, 2013
A week of links
Jun 14, 2013
World economic history in two diagrams
Jun 12, 2013
Genetics and the increase in obesity
Jun 10, 2013
A week of links
Jun 7, 2013
Paleo-hypotheses
Jun 5, 2013
Zuk’s Paleofantasy
Jun 3, 2013
A week of links
May 31, 2013
Modelling versus theory
May 28, 2013
A week of links
May 24, 2013
A science of intentional change
May 22, 2013
Sexual selection and entrepreneurship
May 20, 2013
A week of links
May 17, 2013
A week of links
May 10, 2013
Cluelessness
May 8, 2013
Impatience and aggregate risk
May 6, 2013
A week of links
May 3, 2013
Selection during pregnancy
May 2, 2013
Hwang and Horowitt’s The Rainforest
Apr 30, 2013
A week of links
Apr 26, 2013
Altruists and the knowledge problem
Apr 25, 2013
Deep Rationality: The Evolutionary Economics of Decision Making
Apr 22, 2013
A week of links
Apr 19, 2013
Evolution of time preference by natural selection
Apr 18, 2013
A unified behavioural theory of economic activity
Apr 15, 2013
A week of links
Apr 13, 2013
Evolutionary psychology, fertility and economic ambition
Apr 10, 2013
The evolution of happiness
Apr 8, 2013
A week of links
Apr 6, 2013
Economics from a biological viewpoint
Apr 1, 2013
A week of links
Mar 29, 2013
Using the Malthusian model to measure technology
Mar 27, 2013
The success of the productive
Mar 25, 2013
A week of links
Mar 22, 2013
Cooperation and Conflict in the Family Conference
Mar 20, 2013
Business adaptation
Mar 18, 2013
A week of links
Mar 15, 2013
Genetic distance and income differences - evidence from China
Mar 13, 2013
A week of links
Mar 8, 2013
Genetic diversity, phenotypic diversity and the founder effect
Mar 6, 2013
Victorian naturalists
Mar 4, 2013
A week of links
Mar 1, 2013
Publishing on genetic diversity and economic growth
Feb 27, 2013
Flynn’s Are We Getting Smarter?
Feb 25, 2013
A week of links
Feb 22, 2013
Does genetic diversity increase conflict?
Feb 21, 2013
Fisher on the evolution of time preference
Feb 18, 2013
A week of links
Feb 15, 2013
Social mobility across the generations
Feb 14, 2013
Does genetic diversity increase innovation?
Feb 12, 2013
A week of links
Feb 8, 2013
The ‘Out of Africa’ Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
Feb 7, 2013
A model of the quantity-quality trade-off
Feb 5, 2013
There is no quantity-quality trade-off
Feb 4, 2013
A week of links
Feb 1, 2013
Fertility is going to go up
Jan 31, 2013
Spontaneous order
Jan 29, 2013
A week of links
Jan 25, 2013
Updating Maddison
Jan 23, 2013
James Crow on the quality of people
Jan 21, 2013
The benefits of Chinese eugenics
Jan 18, 2013
Evolution, the Human Sciences and Liberty meeting
Jan 16, 2013
Is poverty in our genes? From the comments
Jan 15, 2013
O-ring and foolproof sectors
Jan 14, 2013
Kremer’s O-ring theory of economic development
Jan 11, 2013
Consensus in economics and biology
Jan 9, 2013
Who will invade economics?
Jan 6, 2013
Is poverty in our genes?
Jan 3, 2013
The best books I read in 2012
Dec 28, 2012
The rationale of the family
Dec 22, 2012
Exploring genes
Dec 19, 2012
The bright tax
Dec 17, 2012
Krugman on Gould and Maynard Smith
Dec 14, 2012
Failure to respond as a measure of conscientiousness and IQ
Dec 12, 2012
Religion, personality and fertility
Dec 10, 2012
A flood of new genetic variation
Dec 7, 2012
Positive eugenics
Dec 4, 2012
Boyd and Richerson’s group selection
Nov 26, 2012
Genoeconomics at the AEA Annual Meeting
Nov 22, 2012
Sexual selection and inequality
Nov 19, 2012
The decline in intelligence?
Nov 16, 2012
Critique of conspicuous consumption and economic growth
Nov 13, 2012
Genes, economics and happiness
Nov 7, 2012
Boyd and Richerson’s The Origin and Evolution of Cultures
Nov 5, 2012
Using neuroeconomics in economics
Oct 31, 2012
Deriving the demand for children
Oct 29, 2012
Genetics without genes
Oct 25, 2012
Long-term social mobility is low
Oct 23, 2012
Trivers on Romney’s sons and Obama’s daughters
Oct 19, 2012
Nobel prizes and marriage markets
Oct 16, 2012
Genetic diversity and economic development: Ashraf and Galor respond
Oct 13, 2012
Harvard academics on genetic diversity and economic development
Oct 10, 2012
The benefits of competition
Oct 8, 2012
Ayn Rand and altruism
Oct 4, 2012
Cooperation is intuitive
Oct 3, 2012
Inequality and declining fertility
Oct 1, 2012
Haidt’s group selection
Sep 28, 2012
Haidt’s The Righteous Mind
Sep 26, 2012
Socioeconomic status versus fitness
Sep 24, 2012
Videos for the Biological Basis of Preferences and Behavior Conference
Sep 21, 2012
Kelly’s What Technology Wants
Sep 19, 2012
Agriculture and population growth
Sep 17, 2012
Henrich on markets, trust and monogamy
Sep 14, 2012
Genetic diversity and economic development
Sep 12, 2012
Age-dependent evolution
Sep 10, 2012
Genoeconomics and the ENCODE project
Sep 7, 2012
Economy-IQ feedback
Sep 3, 2012
Does equality increase conspicuous consumption?
Aug 30, 2012
Hunter-gatherer workouts
Aug 28, 2012
Keeping economists honest
Aug 27, 2012
Not quite paleo
Aug 24, 2012
The intelligent inheriting the earth
Aug 22, 2012
Recent selection for height
Aug 20, 2012
Ongoing selection against violent behaviour
Aug 18, 2012
Models without data
Aug 16, 2012
The Stigler diet
Aug 14, 2012
Sexual selection, conspicuous consumption and economic growth
Aug 10, 2012
Cliodynamics and complexity
Aug 6, 2012
The evolution of cornets
Jul 31, 2012
Ormerod’s Why Most Things Fail
Jul 28, 2012
Selective sweeps in humans
Jul 24, 2012
Eugenics versus economics
Jul 22, 2012
Groups, kin and self interest
Jul 19, 2012
Simon’s Models of My Life
Jul 16, 2012
What is multilevel selection?
Jul 14, 2012
Labelling cultural group selection
Jul 12, 2012
The Origins of Savings Behaviour
Jul 10, 2012
Charity as conspicuous consumption
Jul 8, 2012
Conspicuous consumption and poverty traps
Jul 7, 2012
Is biology easier than physics?
Jul 5, 2012
The lipstick effect
Jul 1, 2012
Inequality persistence circa 5000 BCE
Jun 28, 2012
The deep roots of development
Jun 25, 2012
Pinker takes on group selection
Jun 22, 2012
Population, connectivity and innovation
Jun 21, 2012
Europeans and economic growth
Jun 19, 2012
Evolutionary science as the new “classics”
Jun 17, 2012
Evolutionary policy making
Jun 16, 2012
Some perspectives on Elinor Ostrom
Jun 13, 2012
Robert Frank’s Passions Within Reason
Jun 11, 2012
Economists on autopilot
Jun 8, 2012
Economists are different?
Jun 6, 2012
Hayek, planning and eugenics
Jun 4, 2012
A critique of behavioural economics from 1988
Jun 3, 2012
Shrinking brains and intelligence
Jun 1, 2012
The consequences of shrinking brains
May 30, 2012
Eugenics and regression to the mean
May 28, 2012
Conflict and social evolution
May 26, 2012
Markets and morals
May 24, 2012
Seabright’s The War of the Sexes
May 22, 2012
Institutions are endogenous
May 20, 2012
Entanglement
May 19, 2012
Could this critique apply to economics?
May 18, 2012
Chimps 1, Humans 0
May 16, 2012
While we wait for the genoeconomics revolution
May 15, 2012
Maladaptive ideas
May 14, 2012
The genetic architecture of economic and political preferences
May 11, 2012
Game theory and the peacock’s tail
May 9, 2012
Rubin’s Darwinian Politics
May 7, 2012
The Biological Basis of Preferences and Behaviour conference
May 6, 2012
IQ as a necessary but not sufficient condition for genius
May 4, 2012
Gandolfi, Gandolfi and Barash’s Economics as an Evolutionary Science
May 2, 2012
Consilience conference afterthoughts
Apr 30, 2012
Group selection and the social sciences
Apr 27, 2012
The recent evolution of musical talent
Apr 22, 2012
Why do we work less?
Apr 20, 2012
Selfish herding
Apr 18, 2012
Matt Ridley’s The Rational Optimist
Apr 16, 2012
Beinhocker’s The Origin of Wealth
Apr 11, 2012
The three stages of evolutionary economics
Apr 9, 2012
Saad’s The Evolutionary Bases of Consumption
Apr 5, 2012
The return of group selection
Apr 3, 2012
Economics and evolutionary biology reading list
Apr 1, 2012
An economics and evolutionary biology reading list
Apr 1, 2012
Teaching evolution in economics
Mar 28, 2012
Bowles and Gintis’s A Cooperative Species
Mar 26, 2012
Education, income and children
Mar 21, 2012
The political implications of group selection
Mar 19, 2012
Subsidise the rich for the good of our species
Mar 16, 2012
Are children normal goods?
Mar 14, 2012
New books on the evolution of cooperation
Mar 12, 2012
Male income and reproductive success
Mar 9, 2012
The eugenics of contraception
Mar 7, 2012
Why do married men earn more?
Feb 29, 2012
Kahneman on the price of freedom
Feb 28, 2012
Foresight by H. G. Wells
Feb 24, 2012
Parental income and SAT scores
Feb 22, 2012
Evolutionary strategies
Feb 21, 2012
Harford’s Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure
Feb 17, 2012
Quantifying children
Feb 15, 2012
Population genetics and economic growth
Feb 13, 2012
Risk aversion is not irrational
Feb 9, 2012
Trivers on biology in economics
Feb 7, 2012
Trivers’s The Folly of Fools
Feb 3, 2012
Strength by outbreeding
Feb 2, 2012
Payment for winning the genetic lottery
Jan 31, 2012
Absolute improvement
Jan 29, 2012
Frank’s Luxury Fever
Jan 28, 2012
Excess males
Jan 24, 2012
Consilience Conference
Jan 21, 2012
Economic mobility and reproductive success
Jan 20, 2012
The mating reservation wage
Jan 19, 2012
Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jan 18, 2012
Crime, abortion and genes
Jan 16, 2012
Evolution and education policy
Jan 13, 2012
Dysgenics and war
Jan 11, 2012
Status, signalling and the handicap principle
Jan 9, 2012
Intelligence and assortive mating
Jan 6, 2012
Garon’s Beyond Our Means
Jan 4, 2012
A Nobel Prize for biology
Jan 2, 2012
Not so irrational
Dec 30, 2011
Best books I read in 2011
Dec 27, 2011
IQ externalities
Dec 22, 2011
Zimbardo’s The Lucifer Effect
Dec 19, 2011
The perfection of man
Dec 18, 2011
Genoeconomics: molecular genetics and economics
Dec 16, 2011
The use of heritability in policy development
Dec 13, 2011
A passion for equality?
Dec 11, 2011
Human evolution goes on
Dec 7, 2011
Dubreuil’s Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies
Dec 5, 2011
An evolutionary Occupy
Dec 3, 2011
Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political Order
Nov 19, 2011
Two articles on genetics and economics
Nov 18, 2011
Intelligence changes
Nov 15, 2011
Monkey inequality
Nov 12, 2011
Malthus and the feast
Nov 10, 2011
The IQ taboo
Nov 6, 2011
Is loss aversion a bias?
Nov 5, 2011
Take the evolutionary economics pill
Nov 1, 2011
Variation in reproductive success
Oct 22, 2011
Two perspectives on sex differences
Oct 20, 2011
Whitfield on the Darwin Economy
Oct 17, 2011
Is Darwin or Smith the father of economics?
Oct 10, 2011
Robert Frank’s The Darwin Economy
Oct 7, 2011
Hunting, gathering and comparative advantage
Oct 6, 2011
Beauty as a fitness indicator
Oct 1, 2011
Is it human nature to riot?
Sep 30, 2011
Markets and family values
Sep 29, 2011
Disease and liberalisation
Sep 28, 2011
Human nature and property rights
Sep 27, 2011
Pinker on violence
Sep 25, 2011
Brooks on hunter-gatherers and egalitarianism
Sep 24, 2011
Hamermesh’s Beauty Pays
Sep 20, 2011
Human nature and libertarianism
Sep 17, 2011
What economics misses
Sep 14, 2011
Happiness is not the objective
Sep 12, 2011
Male incentives
Sep 10, 2011
Using evolutionary theory to shape neighbourhoods
Sep 8, 2011
The genetic and social lottery
Sep 7, 2011
Do economists satisfice?
Sep 1, 2011
The end of women
Aug 29, 2011
Elite envy
Aug 28, 2011
Sports team ownership as conspicuous consumption
Aug 27, 2011
Underestimating heritability
Aug 25, 2011
Does epigenetics matter?
Aug 23, 2011
Economics is a branch of ecology
Aug 20, 2011
Economists 1, Biologists 0
Aug 18, 2011
Envy has its benefits
Aug 17, 2011
Low social mobility equals success
Aug 16, 2011
More people, more ideas - in the long run
Aug 15, 2011
The gender gap
Aug 11, 2011
Keynes and the solved economic problem
Aug 9, 2011
Health trade-offs
Aug 4, 2011
Darwin on female preferences
Aug 3, 2011
The costs of polygamy
Aug 1, 2011
Free sterilisation
Jul 31, 2011
Return to equilibrium
Jul 30, 2011
Only economists are rational
Jul 25, 2011
Is everyone the same?
Jul 24, 2011
Brooks on evolution and obesity
Jul 19, 2011
Fukuyama’s biological approach
Jul 18, 2011
The growth of atheism
Jul 16, 2011
Clark on the remnants of rural idiocy
Jul 11, 2011
Jones on IQ and productivity
Jul 10, 2011
Darwin and Marx
Jul 6, 2011
Wrong predictions
Jul 5, 2011
Galbraith on evolution and the invisible hand
Jul 1, 2011
Wilson and Pinker on evolutionary psychology
Jun 27, 2011
Defending Stephen Jay Gould
Jun 26, 2011
Galton trivia
Jun 24, 2011
Genetic thresholds
Jun 23, 2011
Crime and biology
Jun 22, 2011
Ferguson on Malthus again
Jun 21, 2011
Ferguson’s Civilization: The West and the Rest
Jun 20, 2011
Heritability, political views and personality
Jun 17, 2011
Diversity and consumerism
Jun 17, 2011
The evolution of conscientiousness
Jun 16, 2011
Miller’s Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Jun 15, 2011
Ferguson on Malthus
Jun 14, 2011
Evolution and obesity
Jun 10, 2011
Maslow’s hierarchy
Jun 9, 2011
Brooks’s Sex, Genes & Rock ‘n’ Roll
Jun 8, 2011
Modelling populations
Jun 7, 2011
Natural selection and the collapse of economic growth
Jun 6, 2011
Natural selection and economic growth
Jun 3, 2011
Was it better for our paleolithic ancestors?
May 31, 2011
Coyle on happiness
May 30, 2011
Dangerous ideas
May 27, 2011
The benefit to being right
May 25, 2011
Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, Part III
May 24, 2011
Hungry judges
May 23, 2011
The Simon-Ehrlich bet
May 20, 2011
Evolutionary psychology and the left
May 19, 2011
Ultimate population limits
May 18, 2011
Happiness adjusts
May 17, 2011
Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class, Part II
May 16, 2011
Heritability of religion and fertility
May 13, 2011
Population and the tragedy of the commons
May 12, 2011
Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class
May 11, 2011
Trust and education
May 10, 2011
Bryan Caplan’s Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids
May 9, 2011
Libertarians and fertility
May 6, 2011
Would Julian Simon worry?
May 5, 2011
Fogel and supersized humans
May 3, 2011
Rotten kids and altruism
Apr 29, 2011
Morris’s Why the West Rules For Now - Part II
Apr 28, 2011
Morris’s Why the West Rules For Now
Apr 27, 2011
Genetically testing similarity
Apr 23, 2011
In the company of a stranger
Apr 22, 2011
Consumption and fitness
Apr 19, 2011
Social Decision Making: Bridging Economics and Biology
Apr 18, 2011
Jones on IQ and immigration
Apr 14, 2011
What can evolutionary biology offer economics?
Apr 13, 2011
Lehrer on measurement
Apr 12, 2011
Evolution and the invisible hand
Apr 11, 2011
Wilson on economics and evolution
Apr 8, 2011
The Evolution Institute
Apr 6, 2011
Measurement nihilism
Apr 4, 2011
The heritability debate, again
Apr 1, 2011
Micromotives and macrobehavior
Mar 30, 2011
Income and IQ
Mar 28, 2011
Evolution and irrationality
Mar 25, 2011
Economists and biology
Mar 22, 2011
Gladwell’s Outliers
Mar 21, 2011
Diamond on biological differences
Mar 13, 2011
Unskilled and unaware
Mar 7, 2011
Crisis in human genetics?
Mar 4, 2011
Genetic distance and economic development
Mar 2, 2011
Trade and natural selection
Feb 22, 2011
Janet Browne’s Charles Darwin: Voyaging
Feb 19, 2011
Kling on patterns of sustainable specialisation and trade
Feb 15, 2011
Crime and selection of aggressive males
Feb 12, 2011
Banking as an ecosystem
Feb 8, 2011
Evolutionary economics and group selection
Feb 7, 2011
What is the objective?
Jan 29, 2011
Why do rich parents bother?
Jan 25, 2011
Is aid really so complex?
Jan 20, 2011
DeLong on the pace of evolution
Jan 18, 2011
The speed of cities - afterthoughts
Jan 14, 2011
The speed of cities, part II
Jan 12, 2011
The speed of cities
Jan 10, 2011
Clark on violence
Jan 6, 2011
More on violence
Jan 5, 2011
Selection for aggression
Jan 4, 2011
My top 10 books in 2010
Dec 31, 2010
Trading fish
Dec 28, 2010
A wasteful Christmas
Dec 23, 2010
Fitness spreading
Dec 12, 2010
The evolution of technology
Dec 9, 2010
Post-crisis economics
Dec 5, 2010
Coal and the industrial revolution
Dec 2, 2010
Better school performance leads to more children
Nov 6, 2010
Procrastination
Oct 20, 2010
The value of a species
Oct 6, 2010
There is but one social science
Sep 26, 2010
The short wingman - do humans use visual illusions to attract a mate?
Sep 23, 2010
Economics versus history - is this the right debate?
Sep 14, 2010
Education in the developing world
Sep 12, 2010
Sports stars born early in the year
Sep 12, 2010
Should we tax education?
Sep 11, 2010
Patience and IQ
Aug 28, 2010
The predictive power of marshmallows
Aug 22, 2010
It’s a risky business attracting a mate
Aug 9, 2010
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